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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: anti-anti-Esperanto
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:01:10 GMT
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rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) writes in a recent posting (reference <rte-1910951107530001@mac-118.lz.att.com>):
>In article <elnaDGnn0E.6u3@netcom.com>, elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League
>N America) Miko Sloper wrote:
>
>> rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) writes in a recent posting
>(reference <rte-1310951429000001@mac-118.lz.att.com>):
>> >
>> You will perhaps notice the cause of these offensive flamefests is in
>> the anti-Esperanto camp. Obviously unscientific assertions based on
>> a priori judgements of realworld phenomena *ought* to be challenged and
>> corrected.
>
>When do you plan to start?  What scientific issues of interest to linguists
>do you plan to post?  What issues of scientific interest did you include in
>the original post?  What scientific issue did you include in this post?
>
You have not been paying attention, have you?
In the FAQ for this newsgroup (sci.lang) there are several mentions of subsets
of linguistics called "sociolinguistics" and "psycholinguistics". I hope that
you can accept these fields' validity.
Many Esperanto speakers who contribute to this forum have posted articles 
dealing with these issues (among others):
***Translation services in the United Nations and European Union and their
   waste of resources, with Esperanto as a possible solution to that waste
***Citizen diplomacy and its linguistic barriers, with Esp. etc.
***Education aiming at polylingualism, with Esp. etc.

I believe that efficiency in diplomatic communication, success in everyday
speech acts and rationally planned language instruction are *all* worthy
subjects for sci.lang and by extension, for alt.politics.ec.

>Why did you post a followup to a nonscientific posting in a newsgroup other 
>than the one in which it was posted?  I deleted sci.lang
>from the list of newsgroups, why did you restore it?
>
It seems obvious to me that a discussion of "what belongs in sci.lang"
belongs in sci.lang.

Miko.

BTW another intiguing facet of psycholinguistics is the question "What
makes the opponents of planned languages so rabid and hysterical?"

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