Re: What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 11, 2006, 13:37 |
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Hallo!
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:40:33 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> > (actually, Esperanto was under consideration as the national
> > language of Israel when the state was founded,
>
> find that rather hard to believe. Do you have a citation for that?
>
> It seems on a par with "German nearly became the official language of
> the United States" -- an urban legend which might have a kernel of
> truth but has been considerably distorted.
I have no citation for that, sorry; I seem to remember having read about it
on some Esperantist website, don't know which one, and it may well be
a myth. Perhaps *someone* made the proposal, but it didn't play a major
role.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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