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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: bizarre parody? 
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:03:58 GMT
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sdlee@cs.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}) writes in a recent posting (reference <7f914a4kxk.fsf@phoenix.cs.hku.hk>):
>>>>>> "Desmond" == Desmond Sin <dcmsin@hk.super.net> writes:
>
>
>    Desmond> But look Sau Dan, Classical Chinese isn't an
>    Desmond> agglutinitive language, nor does it have any inflections
>    Desmond> (or should it be inflection without an "s"?).  How dare
>    Desmond> you call such a mumbo jumbo a language?
>
>Ah!  Yeah... It's  too primitive to be a  language  for the civilized!
>It's a toy for the barbarians!
>
I assume that these two comments are some form of parody, meant to 
satirize beliefs held by their interlocutors. If so, it also reflects
a strange vision of what they believe to be these beliefs....


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