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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3rqj09$ota@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>:
>
>> You then have to translate all sorts of works into the language, and
>> hope that there is the demand from people wanting to buy them.
>
>Loads of stuff has been translated. Selling it is a bit hard at
>present. Esperantists seem strongly to prefer original literature
>in Esperanto to translations.
>
Still, there appears to be enough of a market to support at least a small 
translation publishing industry. There have even been cases when the 
Esperanto translation of a work beat other translations onto the market, 
from Folke Bernadotte's _The End_ to Dizdarevic's _Tales of the Siege of 
Sarajevo_.

>> Will
>> there be an Esperanto version of the Sun? Are we going to get
>> Esperanto porn?
>
>There is some porn ...
>
_C^u s^i mortu trafike?_
>
>They always insist that the best English teacher is a native speaker,
>so as to keep their monopoly ...
>
For some comments on this topic, see Douglas Lummis's interesting article 
on the teaching of so-called "Conversational English" in Japan (_The 
Kyoto Review_, Spring 1975). In that particular field and location the 
term "native speaker" turned out to be a code phrase for a particular 
subgroup of "native speakers" -- those with white skins.


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