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From: rcj@burl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Any esperantists out there?
Message-ID: <232@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Jul-83 18:52:06 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 10 18:52:06 1983
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Excuse me for my ignorance, but for the benefit of anyone else out
there who doesn't know I will now post the definition of Esperanto
to the net for the edification of all (@ == upside-down 'e'; capital
letter indicates long, otherwise short):

Es-pe-ran-to (es'p@-ran'tO) n.  An artificial international language
invented in 1887, characterized by a vocabulary based on word roots
common to many European languages, a single, unvarying ending for
each principal part of speech, and a regularized system of conjugation
and inflection.  [Invented by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof (died 1917), Polish
philologist, who wrote under the name of *Dr. Esperanto*, "one who hopes."]

Sounds like a good system for international communication.  Also
sounds boring and unromantic as hell.  I vote no on Esperanto.

So convert me already,
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