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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Supported by Famous Linguists (tm) (was: ESPERANTO - SPAM SPAM SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM)
Message-ID: <D5AusG.5IB@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Keywords: linguistics esperanto international
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <3jnjmq$kpq@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <Za6Y2iE.padrote@delphi.com> <3jt061$icv@blackrabbit.cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:33:50 GMT
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In article <3jt061$icv@blackrabbit.cs.uoregon.edu> bhelm@cs.uoregon.edu (B. Robert Helm) writes:
>In article <Za6Y2iE.padrote@delphi.com>,
>>Nevertheless I see no evidence that linguists in general have
>>flocked to support the use of the "lingvo internacia" as a solution
>>to these problems. [...]
>
>For the record: Before the Second World War, several prominent
>linguists supported the idea of a designed international auxiliary
>language, although none that I know of committed to Esperanto
>specifically.

Why is this relevant, though?  The idea of using a designed international
auxiliary language as a solution to the world's communication problems is
a political idea, and whether one supports it or not depends on one's
political views, which are in no way correlated with one's being or
not being a linguist.  One might as well ask how many linguists
like pineapple and ham on their pizza.

-- 
`"Na, na ... ah mean, *no wey*, wi aw due respect, ma lady," stammers Joe.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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