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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Essentialist Explanations (was: Scandinavian)
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Eugene Holman wrote:
 
> English is essentially bad Dutch with outrageously pronounced French and
> Latin vocabulary.

English is essentially a bizarre dialect of Chinese, pronounced entirely
in the first tone.

-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban
