At 12:03 am +0000 1/5/02, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:20:51 +0100
>> From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
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>
>> Generally so - but I believe there is still a following for (reformed)
>> Volap¸k and some keen souls are trying to revive SolReSel. Bob Petrie
>> claims some success for his Speedwords revival; and the Glosa-pe, I
>> believe, have quite a following and there are those who take up
>> Interlingua. Good for them - I say! Variety is the spice of life.
>
>At the risk of being snarky, I'll comment that --- no wait, I mean, to
>make a sociological observation --- there are other motivations to
>join an IAL group besides using or even learning it.
>
[snip]
>
>Of course Esperanto has its hordes of eternaj komencantoj (-cx-?) too,
>but I do wonder how many proponents of the smaller langs who are in it
>for the sheer politics of it all.
Some certainly - you only have spend a while on Auxlang to realize that.
But we mustn't tar all with the same brush. I'm had interesting and
non-flammable duscussions with the odd proponent of Inrerlingua, e.g.
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