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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Esperanto (was: Languages in the EC)
Message-ID: <D4J64G.IF7@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 00:45:49 GMT
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In article <3ikk4r$rjl@panix.com> lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) writes:
>iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
>
>>I was just using the unfair advantage that [Esperanto] gave me,
>>as a speaker of 4 Romance, 3.5 Slavic and 3 Germanic languages.
>
>Would the .5 Slavic language be Serbo-, or is it -Croatian?

No, the .5 Slavic language is actually Polish, my knowledge of which
is very rudimentary.  The other 3 are Russian, Bulgarian and something
which Serbs call Serbian and Croats call Croatian.  I'd love to be able
to count it as two languages, as that would automatically increase the
number of languages spoken by me by a few percent, but my honesty is
stronger than my vanity.

-- 
`I'm sendin a flood tae pit an end tae it aw.  But dinny worry yersel, Noah.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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