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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: english on the internet
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 20:39:46 GMT
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lmacdona@chuma.cas.usf.edu (Lori Macdonald (BIO)) writes in a recent posting (reference <44se61$ii2@mother.usf.edu>):
>I am doing a paper on whether or not English should be made the universal 
>language of the internet...I would like to hear some opinions and why you 
>think this way.  You can e-mail me or post to this group. 
>Thanks
>
Of course not!  Especially now that we are on the threshhold of multi-bit
technology which makes the non-English languages so much easier to handle.
While it is true that American engineers saddled us all with ASCII, we 
should not let that erode linguistic diversity!!

Miko.


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