Re: EU's language policy (was: new conspiracy theory)

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From: Jarmo Puntanen
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00

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In article <823561335snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk>,
Phil Hunt  <philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
 >Europe is the world's largest economy. If it did adopt a common language,
 >I'm sure lots of people outside Europe would learn it, especially if it
 >was a language designed to be easy to learn.
>

Aren't you being a tad megalomaniac now? And, with the number of the
world's living languages already decreasing at a steady pace, 
a synthetic Eurolang would face more than enough competition from
the remaining great world languages spoken natively. You should 
perhaps also bear in mind the fact that not everyone uses the 
same Latin alphabet, not even within the EU! 

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Jarmo Puntanen 
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From: ccjapu@uta.fi (Jarmo Puntanen)
Subject: Re: EU's language policy (was: new conspiracy theory)
Date: 1996/02/08
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