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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <DACGpx.G2@cwi.nl> <3s9bti$ku6@seralph9.essex.ac.uk> <HINSENK.95Jun21171533@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:04:31 GMT
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In article <HINSENK.95Jun21171533@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA> hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad) writes:
>In article <3s9bti$ku6@seralph9.essex.ac.uk> whean@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Wheatley N) writes:
>   It also has a certain religious feel to it:  you should plan where
>   you go and stay so that you can communicate with other initiates ...
>
>I'd rather think of it as visiting friends on your itinary.

Friends?  You call a stranger a friend just because he speaks Esperanto?
Wheatley N was quite right.  There is something highly religious about a
movement whose members think of one another as friends just because they
are in it.  Do you really think that there is no more to friendship than
a shared hobby or, for that matter, a shared language?

As for me, I'd rather have 4 friends than 400 000 samideanoj.

(And what on earth is this thread doing on sci.lang?)

-- 
`I'll gie ye a purple jaiket [...] an mebbe I'll make ye prime meenister.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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