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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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In article <3s18a6$ghc@soap.pipex.net> John Youles <john.youles@solo.pipex.com> writes:
>all words ending in "-ino" were female, but the word "vino" means wine.
No, vino means wine, but also a female V. At least that's what I think, and 
the Esperanto grammar makes it possible. I leave it to your imagination what 
that is, something to do with victory, peace or a very beautiful lady named 
Vera, or something like that? Isn't it wonderful that a new language has this 
kind of mystic about it, that none of the languages it's supposed to have been 
derived from has?

BTW. Vera is Esperanto means: the condition of many letters V together. In 
Russian it means true, and, oh yes, now I remember, it means that in E-o too.
