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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: languages & happiness!!
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:29:48 GMT
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ablehr@sn.nono writes in a recent posting (reference <32F0945A.488@sn.nono>):
>
>However, when I do meet people who speak English, they're not
>"Englishists", that is, they're not members of a "club" of English
>speakers.  I'll meet people who aren't already part of a "network" based
>on language preference, so they'll have less preassumtions about who I
>am, and I less preassumtions about them.
>
I find that the only assumptions Esperantists have of other Esperantists
is that they will be able to converse.
Non-Esperantists assume some wild models of homogeneity and group-think,
which experience refutes!

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