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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Re: languages & happiness!!
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D Gary Grady wrote:

> Quite so. Esperanto's sole major advantage is that it is relatively
> quite a lot easier to learn. (Some would also note that its political
> neutrality, the fact that it isn't associated with an imperial power,
> makes it more acceptable to a few people, but I don't consider this a
> particularly major advantage.)

Cantonese has this second property also: it is not associated with
an imperial power, and all existing imperial powers either ignore it
or actively repress it.

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John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
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