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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: World Language?
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Not so very long ago, krisna@cham.cs.wisc.edu (Krishna Kunchithapadam) said...

>On the other hand, "well-constructed" or synthesized languages are almost
>certainly doomed to failure since they generally do not have the
>flexibility to adapt.  Language is spoken by people who can and will use
>it in the most bizarre ways possible. 

  That's a good description of the way a lot of people use Esperanto.  
The bizarrity has to be restrained a bit, because it's used by people of 
widely differing linguistic backgrounds.  Sometimes it's tricky to come 
up with simple English translations of some of the Esperanto words 
that people make up, even though they're completely understandable.

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