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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: languages & happiness!!
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:26:50 GMT
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sdlee@cs.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}) writes in a recent posting (reference <7fd8to1986.fsf@phoenix.cs.hku.hk>):
>
>If somebody proposed that such a difficult (in my opinion) language as
>French become an  IAL, I would   complain.  If somebody  proposed that
>such a   difficult  language as   Esperanto become  an   IAL, I  would
>complain.  
>
And yet when the multitudes embrace English (a difficult and undeniably
European language) as the standard of business, diplomacy, etc. I hear
no complaint from you. This is the crux of this issue which you doggedly
ignore: when asked "Is not Esperanto *more fair* than English as an IAL?"
you reply that it is not perfectly fair. When asked "Is not Esperanto
easier to master than English?" you reply that it is not perfectly easy.
When offered a possibly *better* solution, you off-handedly reject it
because it is not perfect.
There is no perfection.

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