Date:    Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:28:27 EST
<br>From:    RonButters  RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM 
<br>Subject: the limited universality de Esperanto
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<br>In a message dated 3/22/98 7:49:53 PM, dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HORIZON.BC.CA wrote:
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<br>    I want to use "de" everywhere, occ. maybe "a'".
<br>  Let's do it for all languages
<br> with prepostions.  Sort of universal creolization  
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<br> it is called "Esperanto"
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<br>Au contraire, mon frere! There's nothing "universal" about Esperanto -
<br>unless your definition of the universe is Western Europe.  
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<br>Esperanto's definition of "universal" (not mine) is 'Western Europe'--or, more
<br>properly, 'Indo-European Europe'. But I assume that anybody who wanted to use
<br>"de" as the "universal" "prepostion" has Indo- European Europe in mind,
<br>anyway.
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