Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@F...> wrote:

 > Facts say the contrary. People who adopt Narbonido never feel that
they are
 > in disagreement with other people about it.

A shotgun plebiscite, no doubt.  What happens to those who oppose?
Brainwash?  Vacations in Siberia?  Coercive drugs?  Lobotomy?



 > >Well, once the community grows beyond 1, there will be...  as soon
 > >as the first vote ends up with a tight draw, the 47% minority will
 > >create a spin-off language of their own, which will in turn schism
 > >again before you can even say "unitato e fraternitato".
 >
 > This doesn't happen. Those in minority just accept the vote of the
majority
 > and go on with their lives.

What kind of beings are you talking about?  Ants?  That certainly
doesn't sound like homo sapiens sapiens to me.  Unless they're
lobotomised.



 > But the comparison is meaningless seen the facts. The Narbonido community
 > (which has celebrated its millionth member a few weeks ago, a woman from
 > the RTC who escaped from a so-called "education camp" of the Venedikanto
 > movement. Note that the 999999th member was a man who escaped from
 > seemingly a similar camp, but from the Neo Kernokantopanto movement. They
 > both told stories of atrocious mistreating, especially of children,
chained
 > to their desks and given 24 hour lessons of their so-called "easy
 > languages".

Oh, the inhumanity.  Jovianto feels no need for forced growth.
Being Jervans, the speakers of Jovianto are well aware that it
is the fate of all elites to be a minority until the time comes.



 > And since the Narbonido movement doesn't feel any interest in bickering
 > over such meaningless subjects, it will go back to its position of
silence,
 > letting people come by themselves to it, as it as perfectly worked until
 > now. They have no interest in theoretical discussions, and theoretical
 > demonstrations that their way cannot work don't interest them, just like
 > Socrates was unimpressed by the man who claimed that movement was
 > impossible, because to go and touch a wall, you first have to walk
half of
 > the distance towards distance, then half of the distance left, than half
 > again, etc... ad infinitum, without ever managing to touch the wall.
 > Socrates, at the end of this brilliant demonstration, just got up and
went
 > and touched the wall :) .

I can't imagine how people ever managed to live without
differential mathematics.  ;-)



-- Christian Thalmann

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