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Re: CHAT: t-shirt

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Monday, September 25, 2000, 8:36
Am 09/25 01:05  J?rg Rhiemeier yscrifef:

> Quite hard, indeed. BTW: What was Tolkien's opinion on auxlangs? > I have read that he took some interest in Esperanto, but wasn't he > quite sceptical about that matter? >
If I remember correctly in the Letters he criticised Esperanto and Novial for having no history behind them. I suppose he was arguing that a language should have its own culture, even one that is constructed for it. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz Deep peace of the flowing air to you.