Re: Uusisuom, Unilang, auxlang discussions in CONLANG

In a message dated 4/24/01 8:07:26 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

<< Saying the Zamenhof largely rejected demands to "improve"

Esperanto is not only incorrect, but rather insulting for a man who spent the

next 15 years after he published his first booklet about "la lingvo
internacia"

asking for comments and criticisms in order to improve Esperanto for

international communication. >>

    I read this whole part (very thorough), and I think current Esperantists
are of the "no changes ever" type.  I merely suggested that esperanto add a
"t" and "d" with hats to render [T] and [D] and they all jumped down my
throat, saying that the alphabet was one of the things you could never
change, and blah blah blah.  That made me unhappy.  And now it appears the
Esperanto movement at Berkeley has all but failed (at least, to make it a
department, or have some real class status).  Oh well.  I just felt kind of
silly writing "teta" for theta.

-David

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