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From: peter@statsci.com (Peter Schumacher)
Subject: Re: re- European language
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UJZA56B@prodigy.com (Kyle Gryphon) writes:

>Perhaps Danish and German could be combined as well.  Creating a second 
>European language for Northerners, and why not create 3 Slavic languages 
>for the west, east, and southern slavs.

Sure, Kyle, but if we're going to do this democratically, we should
base the language on the one spoken by the most people -- Chinese.
Perhaps English could be combined as well, Kyle. If we have time.

Has anyone bothered to ask the 350M Europeans if they especially
feel like abandoning their languages?

God I hate grandiose prescriptions and social engineering!

Peter Schumacher
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Peter Schumacher
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