Re: CHAT: Nov 11th

Bryan Maloney wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, abrigon wrote:
>
> > (400+-) were totally detroyed. Maybe a good reason for a common lingo,
> > AuxLang is so people can talk to each other and make sure WW1s and like
> > never happen again.
>
> Rubbish.
> Trash.
> Nonsense.
> Crapola.
[...]

> The idea that a universal Auxlang will lead in any way to world piece is
> unsubstantiable twaddle.  Indeed, it is actually contradicted by the
> witness of history.  A shared language is no guarantor of, nor even an
> impetus towards, peace.
Wait:  we can't take things to extremes here.  Obviously, it's
not a guarantor of or an impetus towards peace.  That's not
really being debated here (at least, the original poster hasn't
responded back).  The problem is only that it's an oversimplification
of the situation -- common languages *can* lead to greater
understanding, and so insofar as that is true, it's not "crapola".

Remember:  any generalization you make about the world will be,
by the very fact that it's an abstraction, missing the mark some.
Let's not disparage the thoughts of others when we ourselves
constantly make the same error.

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