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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Concerning the number of esperantists
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Cheradenine Zakalwe <zakalwe@vision25.demon.co.uk> writes in a recent posting (reference <WwPINIAOF4CyEwBp@vision25.demon.co.uk>):
>In article <320AEDEF.34E0@francenet.fr>, Marc Bonnaud
><mbonnaud@francenet.fr> writes
>>
>>Are there only 3 billion (I mean the U.S. billion not the British one) 
>>people on planet Earth ?
>>
>
>No. But at least 1.1 billion speak *some* English. 

Right.....
 
"You are very welcome to my shop."
"This is costing twenty dollars".
"Do you want fries with that hamburger?"

In other words, basic business English.


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