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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @suffah wrote: >The ethical aspects never even crossed my mind until this thread. Thank God somebody has some awareness and understanding of the issues involved here! @Mcjon01 >I'm sorry if I ... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-13, 3:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @Talka >Esperanto is just plain silly. Do you also belittle other manufactured and reformed languages (as below) or is it just language planning & reform itself that you so detest: http://e... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-13, 1:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @danieldesu >I don't think America is being malevolent in the supposed destruction of micro-languages and cultures, 'Supposed destruction'? Are you seriously claiming that there was never any offi... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-12, 10:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? Excuse me - David Rothkopf, not David Redekopf! |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-12, 8:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? I meant signs exclusively in English in a country whose language is not English. I have less of a problem with bilingual signs, but would hope that the local language would be the more prominently dis... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-12, 8:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Esperanto thread - (hopefully) non-bickering version Post: Esperanto thread - (hopefully) non-bickering versi... I asked for this to be posted here, as a complement to the Wikipedia article cited above, but as it hasn't been, here goes: Fantini, Alvino E. & Timothy G. Reagan: Esperanto & Education - Tow... |
mankso | General discussion | 2 | 1,028 | 2007-09-12, 1:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? JimmySeal wrote: >Would it be better if there were Esperanto signs and menus everywhere? Of course not - at least not uniquely in Esperanto, which I understand to be your point, no?! Four pages la... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-12, 10:44 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? PrettyKitty wrote: >When I was in China, the locals would speak to all foreigners in English whether the foreigners spoke English as their native tongue or not. And, it seemed like all the tourists... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-12, 2:29 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @naniwa >If you do feel the need to post here, be aware that comparing people to Hitler is not the best way to establish your credibility. You have taken the remark out of context and appear not t... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-11, 2:14 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? [This is in response to Jarvik7's message of 6:42 pm] >-Not everyone here is a native English speaker, or even a native speaker of a western language. How can I possibly know this? I'm new here. Mo... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-11, 12:22 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? [This is in reply to JimmySeal's message of 6:37 pm] There are far too many points for me to respond to here adequately - I'm having difficulty keeping up with all this. To begin, someone might wish t... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-10, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? >Anyone who has ever studied any linguisitics can tell you this: no language is harder than any other language. The native speakers don't have any problems speaking it. A brilliant observation! Do... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-10, 8:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? ADMIN: I'm just clearing duplicate post! Thanks. |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-10, 5:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? Re 'infinitely easier' - I agree this is a rather careless and exaggerated assertion, meant to be understand very loosely, not literally. Re 'five times easier than French or Spanish' - I would even g... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-10, 4:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? Language Learning Difficulty for English Speakers: http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november...tions.html and Table 1.4 on p.21 in Omaggio, Alice C.: Teaching Language in Context - Proficiency-Oriente... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-10, 1:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? Serge asked: >So what brings you on this forum, pray tell? :-) Thanks for the great welcome, guys! I thought I had explained in a footnote to a previous post how and why I came here. I was obvious... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-09, 12:09 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @Jarvik7 Thanks for the reaction. Your profile says you are located in Japan, and you know where I am. A Google search has just revealed to me what JLPT means. Why would that be talked about any more ... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-08, 4:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? Hi Aircawn: No, not any longer since grad school. I still have pages and pages of a sort of 'diary' we were required to keep in Japanese (hiragana/katakana + kanji), but I can no longer read what I m... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-08, 12:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @Jarvik >Are you suggesting that the media is conspiring to keep esperanto down? I wouldn't say 'conspiring' perhaps, but English-media people have an obvious personal interest in not letting peop... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-08, 2:52 am | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? @JimmySeal I wasn't trying to be bellicose - just to make two points: 1) That Esperanto Wikipedia article was the only source I then had at hand. I have since found this one in English: http://en.wiki... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-07, 10:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone know Esperanto? Post: Anyone know Esperanto? Those of you who claim that Esperanto is too Indo-European should perhaps dig a little deeper - it's not always clear whether the statement refers to phonology, vocabulary, syntax, word-building etc. ... |
mankso | General discussion | 118 | 24,755 | 2007-09-07, 8:10 pm | ||