Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?

From: Manuel M Campagna (fa192_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: 8 Feb 2005 20:39:24 GMT

Just remembered something (see at bottom).

Manuel M Campagna (fa192@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) writes:
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG (tb+usenet@becket.net) writes:
>> "Christopher Culver" <christopher_culver@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> It isn't an ad hominem argument to state that a language created by a
>>> sole man is different than a language created by natural cultural
>>> processes.
>> Is there anyone who disagrees with this? What is the value in
>> repeating that the sky is blue?
>
> "Natural cultural" is an oxymoron.
>
>>> I still don't see any evidence that Esperanto defends the French
>>> language. Before you were forced to speak English, now you must speak
>>> Esperanto. Where does this leave French?
>> A waggish one might say, "right where it belongs." But more
> ^^^^^^^
> (meaning some English Canadians, based on my experience)
>
>> seriously, the Esperantist interest in minority language rights is
>> certainly self-interested (has anyone ever pretended the opposite?),
>> and that the French language, and other dominant national languages
>> are hardly natural allies.
>
> French is hardly dominant in Canada, where there are crushing pressures to
> eradicate it.
>
>> The natural allies are the speakers of
>> Dutch, Romansch (maybe), Provencal, etc. French has never been in
>> danger of oblivion.
>
> In Canada, yes. Federal, provincial, and municipal public servants are
> supposed by law to speak the language of choice of their client in Ottawa.
> The provincial and municipal ones generally couldn't care less. At least
> the Official Languages Commission of the Federal Parliament has some teeth
> (only some, though).

That, of course, didn't even take into consideration the almost
accomplished fact of the forced eradication of native languages in Canada.

More and more people from the indigenous peoples of the world are now
taking advantage of Indigxenaj Dialogoj, a program that teaches them
Esperanto, so they can communicate between themselves. I remember when
the first worldwide conference of native peoples was held in Calgary, they
couldn't communicate, and it was a fiasco.

>> Thomas
>
> Manuel

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