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dgary@nando.net (D Gary Grady) wrote:
>Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@francenet.fr> wrote:
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>>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.

I suggest you read for instance, Chomsky's "language and thought"

>
>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.

Oui, oui

>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.

Y' a int�r�t !!!


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