Re: Tactics to bringing a language to life


"Christopher Culver" <crculver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfru@xxxxxxx> writes:
What's the danger there? Do people who've learned those invented
languages suffer from inability of speaking their /native/ language
in their countries?

In the case of Esperanto, I'd say that often yes. The Esperanto
movement is rather strict that if two people are Esperantists, they
should speak Esperanto instead of their native language. Even outside
of formal meetings or congresses, whenever I tried to stick to English
with my fellow English-speaker friends who happened to be
Esperantists, I was rebuffed with "Ni estas samideanoj, ni devus
paroli Esperanton. Ne krokodilu!" ("We are comrades, we should speak
Esperanto, don't use your native language!") This nuttery is why I
finally left.

I thought that Esperantists claim that using that language somehow
'protects' minority languages - how exactly is that supposed to work if the
above is true?

Neeraj Mathur


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