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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960201135844.3978B-100000@rask>,
Jens Stengaard Larsen  <jens@cphling.dk> wrote:
>On 30 Jan 1996, Jarmo Puntanen wrote:
>

 >> So, I gather the _means_ of communicating about the EU seems to be of pri=
 >me=20
 >> importance to a good share of the audience, rather that what is actually
>> communicated?
>
 >Of course the means are more important than the ends. They always are.
 >Any idiot can put up with something everybody would agree to fight for.
 >Few idiots can suggest how to do it.

Pardon me, but I somehow failed to see the your point. Can you 
elaborate on why the _mode_ of communication always overruns the contents,
in your opinion?

 >> I do not regard the language essential.=20
>
 >But it _is_ essential whether you like it or not. How would you do without
 >it?=20

Poorly, must admit. But the can be no single 'holy' language that
would somehow solve all communication problems within the EU.
To think so is, I think, naive. If your end is to further the political
unification of the EU by coining a synthetic Eurolang, please present
the idea as such and do not camouflage it under any quasilinguistic pretext.

 >>  >Remember, this is going to be a permanent business. Nobody is going
 >>  >to give up before either the Federation or some alternative has been
 >>  >established.
 >>=20
 >> I liked that 'or some alternative' part. 'A permanent business'
 >> does not thrill me at all, there's a definite echo of iron boots
 >> around when you say so.
 >
 >Another example of a `permanent business' could be the constitution of a=20
 >country. But maybe you're also against having a written constitution?

Certainly not! An independent state with its own written constitution,
modifiable by its own legistlative bodies, has always been close to my
heart, perhaps because I once lived in a fairly successful one until someone
stole my country's sovereignty (Jan 1st, 1995).  







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