On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:00:39 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
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... Magda wrote:
... > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:01:48 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, john_kulp@hotmail.com (John Kulp)
... > arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
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... > ... On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:04:51 +0100, Mxsmanic
... > ... wrote:
... > ...
... > ... >EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:
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... > ... >> Especially not "Esperanto", which was designed to be a "universal"
... > ... >> language, but never really caught on!
... > ... >
... > ... >It has no culture to support it.
... > ...
... > ... But was used by the US military to test language learning ability
... >
... > Real languages would have been jealous had one of them been chosen instead?
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... Why teach something practical, when you can use a language with no
... native-speakers at all?
Good question. Maybe they have tested the speed at which the soldiers forgot the esperanto
they learned, too.
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It sounds much better in French, but then, everything does. |