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Re: Common European Language (was: Eurolang mailing list)

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From: Edmund Grimley-Evans
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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From: etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans)
Subject: Re: Common European Language (was: Eurolang mailing list)
Date: 1996/01/10
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