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From: georgeh@www.comet.chv.va.us (George F. Hardy)
Subject: Re: Design of an International Auxillary Language (IAL)
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 21:43:43 GMT
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But the hard facts are that 1 out of 3 people in the world
speek English or are learning English as a second language.

Yes, there are many things wrong with English.  For simplicity
of construction Japanese is better; for spelling and grammar, 
German is better.  But, like it or not, English is the world's
language.  French could have been, but lost its opportunity.
I am still not sure why.

GFH

