Re: Essentialist Explanations
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 3, 2002, 3:53 |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> Basic English is essentially the most successful auxlang ever created,
> since at least half of the world's population speaks it without even
> knowing.
I can't really swallow that. Almost nobody speaks BE, although it's
not hard to understand if you know English. In fact, it might be
easier to speak/write if you don't know English, because you are not
tempted to step past the restrictions.
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John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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