Hic le prime parte del message a  AUXLANG que James Chandler
inviava...

Io regrettabilemente non ha tempore pro facer un traduction al
lingua bel international proque il ha dece invitatos a visitar
mi
casa in duo horas e le casa, mi amate sposa me informa, pare
como si un tornado passava per illo. :-( Isto usualmente vole
dicer
que io ha de adjutar a poner ordine al salon de star e
probabilemente
adjutar a lavar plattos. :-(((

Amicalmente,
Jay B.
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Chandler <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list AUXLANG
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Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 3:02 PM
Subject: English and the EU Tower of Babel


>Today's "Times" published three letters under the heading
>      English and the EU Tower of Babel
>
>Here is the first:
>
>>From Mr Robert Evans, MEP for London North West (Party of
European
>Socialists Group (Labour))
>
>Sir, It is true that English is very widely spoken throughout
Europe and
>the world (report and leading article, April 15).  This,
however, cannot
>be a reason for denying citizens the right to use their own
national
>tongue in the European institutions or life in general.
>
>With the projected expansion of the European Union by the
admission of
>Poland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and
Cyprus the
>potential number of languages and language combinations in use
will rise.
>Although, technically speaking, a Europe meeting with 16
languages might
>require 100-plus interpreters, in reality this is not so: such
are the
>skills and talents of the multilingual band of interpreters and
variety of
>"tricks" in use that the real figure would probably be less
than half
>this.
>
>Unless we continue to accept and respect the right if MEPs and
others to
>speak their own language we shall downgrade the status of some
nations,
>create two classes of members and certainly breed resentment.
The
>bitterness resultant from the banning of the Welsh and Irish
languages by
>the English or Franco's purge of Catalan in Spain are testimony
to the
>harm caused by the forcible suppression of regional languages
or dialects.
>
>Just as there would be anti-European revolts in the UK, on a
scale not
>hitherto imagined, of we were told we all had to speak French,
German or
>even Esperanto, so we must accept the feelings of those people
in other
>countries who fear the denial of status to their own languages.
>
>Yours faithfully,
>ROBERT EVANS
>(European Parliamentary Labour Party Spokesperson on Education
and
>Culture),
>European Parliament,
>Rue Wiertz, Brussels 1047,
>April 15.
>
>
>James Chandler
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