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Robert Moldenhauer wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.3.93.960813231132.18635B-100000@rask>,
> jens@cphling.dk says...
[History also shows the opposite of the necessity of compulsion].
> >Hitler tried to compel the world to
> >accept German world hegemony, and he failed.  Bosnia is a sad story,
> >but try to imagine it _without_ the international intervention.  Etc.
> >And the Universala Esperanto-Asocio has "consulting relations" with
> >UNESCO, the UN Organisation for Education, Science and Culture.

> What I find interesting in Bosnia-Hezegovina is that all three sides
> really speak the same language - Serbo-Croatian.  That fact hasn't
> stopped them from filling mass graves with bodies...

I once asked a Bosnian friend about this.  He had learnt E-o as a
refugee in Slovakia, even though he passed the office of an
Esperanto club on the way to work when he lived in Sarajevo.

"Why should ex-yugoslavians be so interested in a common language,
when those who fight each other already have one", I asked.

"Because those who fight do not _try_ to understand", he said.

Sort of made sense.

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Gxis, CU, Tsch��, Hej, Salut   /Jens S. Larsen, lingvist (BA in spe)