On Jan 11, 2020, at 2:12 PM, Tomek <[email protected]> wrote:
> EN
> English fanatics, please read the text:
> http://sylvanzaft.org/verkaro/Esperanto-A_Language_for_a_Global_Village.pdf
No thank you. I am not a "fanatic" of my mother tongue, I simply use it along
with hundreds of millions or billions of others — um, not all of them HERE, of
course, but there are enough English speakers here, and there have been since
Day 1, to make it an interesting and informative place to have conversations
like this. Not to mention I am multilingual (though my Esperanto is
35-year-old-rusty).
What I would much rather do is continue discussion on this list in English, as
we always have. It is good discussion, but I don't appreciate being
name-called ("fanatic") or told to "go learn a new language." I mentioned that
I was a founding member of my university's Esperanto Club, so I know the
reasoning behind why people might want to learn the language. But I don't
believe it was ever meant to be rammed down anybody's throat. (Which is what
that felt like).
Opinions are mine.
Thanks for your understanding and peace to you,
SteveA
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