Re: CHAT: t-shirt
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 25, 2000, 8:36 |
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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.
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