On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:56:06 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> The world seems to have adopted English, so I don't think you'll
> convince many people...
I don't understand why the world should have adopted English as
the de-facto intern
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> The drawback to adopting Esperanto is that it would be an evolving
> language and subject to changes in usage and changes in the meanings
> of words.
The reason why meanings of words change in an evolving language is
because people do
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:45:15 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:43:31 +1000, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> There is an extensive discussion regarding
>> the Latin declinsion of VIRUS at the website I
>> mentioned previously.
>> http://www.per
Hi Sam,
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:43:31 +1000, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> There is an extensive discussion regarding
> the Latin declinsion of VIRUS at the website I
> mentioned previously.
> http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html
> Evidently, in Lati
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:02:48 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> BTW: Anybody thought of declining VIRUS ?
> - virus
> vire
> virum
> virii
> viroThere is an extensive discussion regarding
the Latin declinsion of VIRUS at the website I
mentioned pre
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:33:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Learning to master the speaking and writing of English will be of
>> little economic benefit for those who lack skills and knowledge and
>> experience in the highly
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Learning to master the speaking and writing of English will be of
> little economic benefit for those who lack skills and knowledge and
> experience in the highly lucrative vocations.
The up-and-coming highly (actually, mo
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:19:41 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I remember back in the late 1950's and early 1960's there was
>> an international movement to adopt Esperanto as an international
>> language. The proponents of the movement sai
Hi Folks,
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:19:41 +1000, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Latin is of limited usefulness and hard to learn I'm told.
You have been told correctly.
> English
> is the de facto international language now and the second language
> of choice around the world. If people want to communica
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I remember back in the late 1950's and early 1960's there was
> an international movement to adopt Esperanto as an international
> language. The proponents of the movement said that Esperanto
Esperanto was invented in 1871 by a Polis
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> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > For use
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For use as an international language, why don't
> they consider adopting Latin instead of Esperanto?
Hi Sam,
The UN has 6 official languages - English, Spanish, French, Russian,
Chinese, and Arabic.
In most of the world, the
I remember back in the late 1950's and early 1960's there was
an international movement to adopt Esperanto as an international
language. The proponents of the movement said that Esperanto
would be very easy for almost anyone to learn because the words
and the grammatical structure are made up of a
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