Re: Please learn English

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From: Melanie Oerter
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:00

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m9548@abc.se (Kjell Rehnstroem) wrote:

Interesting! I never heard of interlingua before, but I could easily
understand what you wrote. I just don't know why exactly. My mother
tongue is German, but I speak French and a little Italian and Spanish.
Is it really easy to learn, if you don't speak any romance language?
Or if you never learnt Latin?

Nevertheless, I don't like the idea of artificial languages, and I'm
convinced that no language - if artificial or not - of them will ever
become lingua franca in Europe. Look at how people dislike the idea of
a single European currency. I'm sure they are even more attached to
their native languages. 

I don't know if any of you have followed the hussle about the German
spelling reform. If people already faint when they are supposed to get
accustomed to the new spelling of a few words while having years of
time to do so, what do you think they would do when they were asked to
use a language other than their own?

Just wondering,
Melanie

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From: Oerter@studm.hrz.uni-siegen.de (Melanie Oerter)
Subject: Re: Please learn English
Date: 1996/12/20
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