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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Problems with Esperanto
Message-ID: <319@scc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 14:46:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 14:46:52 1985
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> 
>     Another major problem with Esperanto as a world wide language, is that
> MOST people don't go to the trouble of learning something unless they need
> it for some reason.  The reason that the languages that have come closest to
> being universal have done so is that they were important for some reason.
> 
	This is so true.  Witness that Ireland tried to reintroduce
Gallic as a national language and since there was now reason for anyone
to learn it the attempt fizzled out.  On the other hand, Hebrew
came back to life with the formation of the modern state of 
Israel because it was the only way all the diverse people that
settled there could communicate.

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