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Re:Linguistic purism in English by grondilu on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:10AM (#11712380)
Note sure in what way you think Esperanto is a "pure" language. Most of its words are derived from other languages.
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Re:Linguistic purism in English by tomc1985 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:24PM (#11719294)
Pure in the sense that it was designed to be grammatically regular, phonetic, and generally easy-to-learn. Functional purity.
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