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Article #21Re: Common European Language (was: Eurolang mailing list)
From: Edmund Grimley-Evans
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:00
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|> > And so the new year brings with it the beginning of yet another one of |> > Jon's little anti-Esperanto crusades. |> |> I'm afraid you have that backwards. The end of last year |> brought about the fourth or fifth of the periodic attempts of the |> Esperanto Sales Team to churn up an Esperanto discussion in |> alt.politics.europe, which is where I am reading it. But you were replying to rather a large number of news groups, including sci.lang (now removed). Judging by the word "Eurolang" in the subject this thread was not started by Esperantists, by the way. |> I'm just commenting, as usual, that although it's artfully |> designed to seem like a spontaneous discussion among all those |> millions and millions of speakers of this "world" language, |> what's actually happening is that the same two or three posters |> are taking Esperanto out for another pre-rehearsed spin. And "Jon Livesey" is merely a false account used by the World Cabal of Esperanto Fans as a skillful agent provocateur to make anti-Esperantists seems like rabid fools. Of course it would be more credible if they invented several Jon Liveseys with different names rathan just the one, inimitable ...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public From: etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans) Subject: Re: Common European Language (was: Eurolang mailing list) Date: 1996/01/10 Message-ID: <4d0epq$e8e@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 134870622 references: <817670469snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <4cbvc2$gq0@java.state.ak.us> <4ccgvv$4oq@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4cgkd0$ds5@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <4chk4s$i6j@fido.asd.sgi.com> organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union