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Re:Confessions of a Math Idiot by tokenadult on Friday July 31, 2009 @10:25AM (#734472)
So raise your kids in Esperanto?

I hope not.

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

A Nobel laureate in physics who grew up in a non-English-speaking country recommends learning English as a key to physics research.

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html

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Re:Confessions of a Math Idiot by eiriarte on Friday August 21, 2009 @02:24AM (#777112)
The author of that article is well known in the Esperanto world for being the author of that article... and nothing more ;)

A true expert in Esperanto, the linguist and psychologist Claude Piron, debunked that article years ago:

http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/why.htm

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