Re: Promote Esperanto at Obama's Change.org

Jens S. Larsen wrote:

If language is a means of communication, then language diversity makes
no sense -- and vice versa, if language diversity is a good thing,
Esperanto is objectively a part of it, no matter what its community
wants or does. The linguists are right in accusing the Esperanto
movement of wanting to keep the cake and eat it, but the Esperantists
are also right in accusing the linguistic community of not being able
to explain what sense there actually is in language diversity.

You are correct on both counts, but language diversity can be considered one of those things which are dogmatically good. There are no absolutes in science, one ultimately has to go to dogma for morality.
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António Marques
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