Esperanto, flame-wars (was: Re: Unilang: the Morphology)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 1:38 pm -0400 20/4/01, David Peterson wrote:
> >In a message dated 4/20/01 10:11:34 AM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
> >
> ><< According to the conventional wisdom in Auxland, Esperanto should be
the
> >
> >least successful of those three languages.  Pity facts upset theory  :)
>>
> >
> >    Why does everyone seem to be so against Esperanto?
>
> Eh??  WHO??
I don't believe he was referring to anyone in particular. It's just a fact
among many linguists (not just auxlangers) snobbery towards Esperanto is the
norm- after all, it was created by an oculist who didn't know the first
thing about linguistics. My pet peeve about it is the hideous consonant
clusters- but that doesn't mean I'm against Esperanto- I dislike the way
German sounds- yet I still did a CHE in it.

> As far as I have seen in the last couple of years or so, at least, there
is
> no-one on this present this is "so against Esperanto".
Did he say there was?

> >It works, and it's
> >survived--thrives, no less.  I've never heard of Volapük being taught at
> >college campuses,
>
> Klingon works, survives and thrives!  So what?
IAL Klingon- it has my vote! I think the point David was trying to make is
that although E-o was envisioned as an IAL, it doesn't really matter if it
achieves this goal- it's just another conlang made good. I wish I could say
the same for Cuole or Carashan!

> YAWN!!!!
>
> I've heard all this stuff _AD NAUSEAM_ on Auxlang.  I quitted that list
> because I was fed up, among other things, at the petty peevishness of some
> Esperantists, Glosa-pe & others.  I hoped we could be spared it here.
IMHO, this does sound rather petty-peevish itself. Why not just let the
comment pass?

[snip]
> Please, please let's not have Esperantine flame-wars on this list after
> they've been absent for such a long time.  There is another list for those
> who want them.
I don't want to sound like to seem like I'm setting myself up as judge and
jury here, but it always seems to be the same people who start the flame
wars. You know who you are, I don't need to name names (I've done it myself
a couple of times, but I've behaved myself since the Easter before last
;o) ).

Please, let's stop taking offence at implied corrections etc and talk about
conlanging- otherwise we could have a second AUXLANG on our hands.

Dan

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