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From: Franz.Kruse@erno.de (Franz Kruse)
Subject: Re: Ada is 'better' than C because...
Date: 1996/07/31
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Date: 1996-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
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rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff) writes:

> 	Why don't all the schools teach Esperanto as a second language, so
>    that anyone in the world could communicate with anyone?  Inertia!  The
>    difficulty of finding teachers for a relatively little-known language!
>
> Besides, broken English is the de-facto Esperanto ;-).

Well, yes - to a fairly limited extent and the accent clearly being on BROKEN.
Don't let esperantists (I am one) hear that, they will feel sorry for you with
how little you are satisfied, compared to what you could have with ("unbroken")
Esperanto - not counting the enormous effort necessary to keep (and constantly
reproduce) this modest status quo (not for YOU, for us non-English speaking
countries only, of course).

Franz Kruse