Re: Unilang: the Morphology

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?  It works, and it's 
survived--thrives, no less.  I've never heard of Volapük being taught at 
college campuses, but know of many Esperanto classes (including two here at 
Berkeley and at least one at Davis).  And while Esperanto has its faults, I 
say if you're going to have a universal auxilliary language (a big "if" for 
many, I know), it might as well be the front runner.  If there were too many 
choices out there the whole idea would be destroyed.  Just let survival of 
the fittest take its course and don't complain about the extinct trilobiters 
in our past.

-David

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