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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: complaints & perfection
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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 00:39:22 GMT
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phil@vision25.demon.co.uk writes in a recent posting (reference <857146212snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>):
>
>Some Esperantists treat their language as perfect and get very annoyed
>when some people suggest it might not be perfect.
>
Perhaps true for some extremists. But *most* Esperantists recognize that
there is a great advantage to stability. Some of those get annoyed when
neophytes insist on "improving" a stable system.
Perfection is a red herring.
But not *all* red herrings are perfect...
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