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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: english on the internet
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 19:00:52 GMT
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jmansfield@macalstr.edu writes in a recent posting (reference <44ukov$644@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>):
>	Itbasically already IS, de facto (if you can call this English :) )
>
If you go to a news-stand in Minnesota and notice that all the magazines there
are written in English, would you conclude that English is already the de facto
universal language of the print medium?
I promise you that there are *many* newsgroups in German, Japanese, French, etc
and even in "exotic" languages like Finnish and Esperanto!  
>
>In article <44se61$ii2@mother.usf.edu>, lmacdona@chuma.cas.usf.edu (Lori Macdonald (BIO)) writes:
>>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
>>
>>--
>>Lori MacDonald


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