Paul O. BARTLETT | Re: [europidgin] Re: Do we really need another eurolanguage?

    I didn't realize James had posted this to two lists when I made
this reply to AUXLANG.  I will repeat it here.

From bartlett@... Tue Sep 17 19:49:07 2002
From: Paul O. BARTLETT <bartlett@...>
To: International Auxiliary Languages <AUXLANG@...>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:27:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [europidgin] Re: Do we really need another eurolanguage?

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, James Chandler wrote:

> Paul:
>
> >     "Euroclone" is a term coined some years ago by Don Harlow.
>
> Did Don Harlow coin that term?  Well you learn something new every day.

    The story that I got was that Don first used it in a communication
to Bob "Lojbab" LeChevalier..

> For the record, i accept but grudgingly the term 'euroclone', as i take it
> to be pejorative towards languages like Ido and Novial [...]

    I'm not aware that people [now] consider it pejorative, just descriptive.

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