Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!dual!mordor!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Is Esperanto a "natural language"? (Re: "net.nlang") Message-ID: <975@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 18:43:30 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.975 Posted: Tue Feb 12 18:43:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 15:32:27 EST References: <534@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 15 > Does anyone else find the discussions of esperanto to be misplaced? After > all, this is for discussing "nlang"s. Esperanto more appropriately would > be discussed in a newsgroup such as "net.unnlang" or "net.alang", no? :-) I'm not sure whether that smiley applies to the whole posting or just the last sentence, so I'll answer it as if it's a serious question. The term "natural language" as used in the name of this newsgroup refers to the sort of language that people talk to each other in, as opposed to computer languages (see net.lang). By that criterion, at least, Esperanto certainly is a natural language. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle@zotz.ARPA