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From: ad841@lafn.org (Bob Cunningham)
Subject: Re: talk & travel
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 01:04:04 GMT
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In a previous article, irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (Irina Rempt) says:

>In article <hI84E0P.padrote@delphi.com> John (padrote@delphi.com) wrote 
>on Re: talk & travel
>
>>    Sorry to inject personal opinion into this discussion (not that 
>it hasn't
>> been done before) but the "Esperanto movement" r minds me too much of a
>> religion. They know what's best for me - and if I'd just read their books
>> and study a little while I'd realize what a really great thing it is. And
>> I don't like people who try to convert me to their religion.
>
>That's exactly the reason that I stopped trying to learn Esperanto 
>after I'd met some rather too evangelical Esperantists. I didn't really 
>like the language as a language - it had no aesthetic appeal for me -
>but this turned into an active dislike when I came to know the movement
>behind it (not to insult anyone, especially not Edmund: perhaps I just
>met the wrong people...)
>
>   Irina
>
       During my period of enthusiasm for Esperanto it used to bother me 
a little to get mailings that carried a statement something like, 
"Dedicated to the problem of finding a world language, and Esperanto as 
its solution."  It sounded to me like a bad case of begging the question.


