Re: Uusisuom, Unilang, auxlang discussions in CONLANG

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

>
>     If I can add my two cents, I think most people (the ones who don't
> know a
> morpheme from a metamorphosis) wouldn't think as far as to think a
> universal
> auxilliary language would be futile.  In the experience I have had (with
> Americans), it's not so much a cynical view they adopt, but a fearful
> one.
> Many people I've talked to view Esperanto as a vague, communist plot to
> overtake the world.  They find it inherantly evil to try to get people
> to
> speak another language for anyone else's sake (note: these are usually
> the
> same ones that insist all imigrants should speak English the second they
> arrive, an accent being mildly tolerated).
Exactly the French common attitude (especially in Paris). And even then, it's
not sure you're accepted (a recent pool showed that 60% of French people
recognized that they were racist. When you add the ones who don't recognize it,
it's quite frightful...)

  And anyway, I see Esperanto
> as a
> success, even though not every person on the planet knows it and his/her
> natural language.  It's there if you need it, if you want it--and if you
> do,
> it gets results.  I think that should be the ultimate goal of any
> auxilliary
> language.  But anyway, no more.
>
Very much agreed. Indeed, this practical point of view gets more and more common
among French Esperantists at least. A sane evolution I personally think.

Christophe.

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