Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!duke!mgv From: mgv@duke.UUCP (Marco G. Valtorta) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Esperanto and the origins of some in Message-ID: <5259@duke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 10:21:41 EST Article-I.D.: duke.5259 Posted: Tue Jan 15 10:21:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 01:48:30 EST References: <1129@druny.UUCP>, <10500041@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Organization: Duke University Lines: 10 I was told in school that 60% of all English words have a Latin origin. Does anyone know what the percentage for Russian is? To go back to Esperanto, I read a quote by its inventor that invited the students of the language to listen to Italian radio broadcasts. He thought that it would give the students the right "intonation." (Not an exact quote.) Marco Valtorta