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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Esperanto and the European movement
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rcsiebel@vub.ac.be (Roland Siebelink) writes in a recent posting (reference <3dh23q$h6o@rc1.vub.ac.be>):
>
>Why is it that I always get the feeling that people promoting Esperanto
>don't actually like learning foreign languages, and could this be related
>to the fact that people who are not that good at learning foreign
>languages are often very apt at sciences, which would explain why they are
>so impressed by Esperanto's (so-called) regularity?
>
I do not know why you get that feeling, but I assure you that it is not 
based in fact. Most Esperanto speakers whom I hve ever met are polylingual
and take great delight in learning more languages. In fact, the regularity
of Esperanto is often the novel cute aspect which draws a person in, but
eventually the serious real application of international communication 
becomes the reason to continue to learn and use Esperanto.

BTW most scientists would disagree with your caricature....

Miko Formiko
<MSloper@aol.com>


