Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

En réponse à Christian Thalmann :


>A shotgun plebiscite, no doubt.  What happens to those who oppose?
>Brainwash?  Vacations in Siberia?  Coercive drugs?  Lobotomy?
We have yet to meet one person who opposes from inside the movement. I
guess those who oppose don't ever come in the Narbonido movement in the
first place ;)) . The Narbonido speakers don't mind people who oppose from
outside the movement. They are well aware that their language may not
become the world IAL. They don't even know whether there will be one or
not. Narbonido is there to provide an alternative, because to find the best
way it's always better to have a lot to choose from.


>What kind of beings are you talking about?  Ants?  That certainly
>doesn't sound like homo sapiens sapiens to me.  Unless they're
>lobotomised.
Adult homo sapiens sapiens, not childish ones ;))) . The difference is
quite big you know ;))) .

Note that I modelled the behaviour of the Narbonido movement on the
behaviour of most Esperantists I met. Most of them don't have any intention
to *promote* Esperanto, apart from by using it themselves. They are also
usually uninterested in creating languages themselves, and the few people
who want to introduce variations and so-called "ameliorations" usually stay
in the movement and their "ameliorations" are usually put in the
dictionaries (good dictionaries of Esperanto include for instance the
proposals "ri" and "sxli" for the epicene third person singular proposed by
some. It has never been adopted by the majority, but it hasn't been
forbidden either. The result is that everybody's happy: those who want to
use it use it, those who do not don't have to, and yet won't have a problem
understanding those who do - if they don't, they just ask what it means
;))) -). You have to realise, after all, that the only split the Esperanto
movement ever suffered from happened quite a long time ago, with those who
later proposed Ido. And this split was hardly balanced, with more than 90%
of people staying with Esperanto. And from what I've seen, it didn't leave
hard feelings. The Esperantists who know about Ido are not that common, and
those who know about it usually have no opinion on it.

That's what happens when the majority of people using an IAL don't have any
interest in IAL politics. They are just interested in a working tool, not a
theoretically perfect machine.


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

Christophe Grandsire.

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