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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: living languages/ vivantaj lingvoj
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:50:06 GMT
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ablehr@sn.nono writes in a recent posting (reference <32EB2E5C.5C2E@sn.nono>):
>
>This is your opinion, right, and not, like, a universal truth?
>
Wow, I must have stumbled onto a new newsgroup: two appeals to
"universal truth" in the past three articles!!

     [Jim Howard wrote:]
>> [...] Europeans  considered going back
>> to Latin, but the trend is towards a simpler, modernized language such as
>> Esperanto.  
>
>Enlighten me if I'm wrong, but the Merriam Webster definition of "trend"
>still holds, doesn't it?  I mean, a "trend" is still the "general
>movement in the course of time of a statistically detectable change"?
>
Do you believe that there is *more* support for Latin than for Esperanto?
The numbers of Esperanto supporters and speakers is demonstrably growing;
is there *any* group, magazine, whatever supporting Latin?

I thought it was obvious from the context that  Jim Howard was referring
to those activists who strive to arrange a mutual tongue, so that his
sentence implied "Among people seeking an International Auxiliary Language, 
Europeans considered going back to Latin, but...."


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