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From: hsbrand@cs.vu.nl (HS Brandsma)
Subject: Re: Invented language & government
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George Jenner (george@TeleMatique.org) wrote:
: Ta, Gary.  Just what I wanted to know and more.

: DGG> widely used as a lingua franca throughout Indonesia and reputedly one
: DGG> of the easiest languages in the world to learn. I think it's generally

: Didn't know this.  Did they purposely simplify it, or was Malay already
: simple?  I just realised, looking at the word, that "Indonesia" seems
: to be composed of "indo" + "esia" (as in Polynesia)  My dicco can't help
: with the -esia.

: DGG> The teaching of Esperanto is financed by public school systems in a
: DGG> number of countries, including the United States. A few school systems

: Does this mean children can study Esperanto as a major subject, just as
: with Spanish or Japanese?

: Geo.

Not -esia but -nesia, derived from the greek nesos, which means 
island. Indonesia=Indian island.
Ditto: Polynesia= many islands (makes sense ..)

Henno Brandsma

