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Article #3387Re: EU's language policy (was: new conspiracy theory)
From: D Gary Grady
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 00:00
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Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@francenet.fr> wrote: >Freedom of speech in one's own language is by far as important as >freedom of thought, given the strong dependances between language >and thought. I'm very doubtful of those "strong dependencies between language and thought" but however that might be, please note that hardly any advocates of a common SECOND language favor doing away with national and regional languages. Quite the opposite, in fact: Some argue that the wider use of a language such as Esperanto or Interlingua would make it less likely that Anglo-American culture would overwhelm other cultures, because those other languages don't belong to a particular country and are easier to learn, requiring much less absorption of the foreign culture in the course of learning them. As I've said before, I have strong practical reservations about such schemes, but we should recognize what's being advocated, and it isn't the suppression of other languages. D Gary Grady Durham NC USA 73513.2350@compuserve.com / dgary@nando.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public From: dgary@nando.net (D Gary Grady) Subject: Re: EU's language policy (was: new conspiracy theory) Date: 1996/01/30 Message-ID: <4elkq7$amc@castle.nando.net> X-Deja-AN: 137207784 references: <817670469snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <HINSENK.96Jan14211556@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA> <4deu64$7mc@infohub.engr.sgi.com> <HINSENK.96Jan18144610@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA> <4dna4b$o3v@infohub.engr.sgi.com> <822094788snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <4e4jnl$cl9@oden.abc.se> <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> organization: News & Observer Public Access newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union