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From: mk100485@oak.cats.ohiou.edu (Marwan Michel Kraidy)
Subject: Re: ESPERANTO, my ass
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>    Reply to: Mutant
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>                             RE: ESPERANTO, MY ASS
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>    >
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>On Sun, 12 Mar 1995, Maelstrom wrote:
>
>> In article <3jtgo4$m30@pulsar.sky.net> you wrote:
>> : Talk about a waste of time! Why aren't YOU more fully utilizing your time
>> : toward the abolition of war, famine, etc., instead of coming in here and
>> : slamming this language. No, English is not, nor will it ever be THE
>> : international language - pull your head out of your ass, fool. Esperanto
>>
>> It isnt?  ANd in what cave have you been living in for the last 50-60 years?
>
>What cave are YOU living in? Do you honestly believe you can get along in
>English anywhere in the world? That would be the mark of a true
>international language. If so, you probably haven't travelled much.
>Pathetic pidgin English can be found spoken here and there, but that's a
>long way from making English THE international language. I sure wish some
>of my fellow Americans would stop displaying their arrogant ignorance
>for all the world to see and continue to justify the "Ugly American"
>label we are tagged with.

 BTW, the world's bigger than just North America >and Western Europe.
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Excellent point!
Marwan Michel Kraidy

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