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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HenHanna Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: League of Nations first meeting (10-1-1920) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:02:32 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:02:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cda7bbd820da97e0a9151b7b6d2c87f6"; logging-data="646950"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+2pc5zxiJMkszWrGwUkd4UpeJRdSqgd9w=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZMWoEyk85Cm7Kn4FsS+8q6IuSHE= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2063 On 1/15/2024 10:29 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2024-01-14, Ross Clark wrote: > >> This was a very preliminary meeting, held in London. The first General >> Assembly was later that year, in Geneva, with 41 nations represented. >> >> French and English were designated "official" [working] languages. > Makes sense. French was still the international (well, Western) > lingua franca, but English was rising rapidly, what with the British > Empire and the ascent of the USA. > >> Spanish was added later the same year. > > Now that's more surprising. > >> There was a formal motion to include Esperanto, but that was vetoed by >> the French. (The league did recommend, in 1922, that Esperanto be >> included in the educational curriculum of member countries.) > > Esperanto was never attached to any population/culture/etc. that > would have allowed it to achieve critical mass. > is Ross Clark on vacation?