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From: mgv@duke.UUCP (Marco G. Valtorta)
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Subject: Re: Esperanto and the origins of some in
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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