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From: Nick Rezmerski <rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: ESPERANTO - SPAM SPAM SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM
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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:48:58 GMT
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mgr11@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.G. Rison) wrote:
>
> En la artikolo <5S9Ys98.padrote@delphi.com>,
> John Ayala  <padrote@delphi.com> skribis:
> 
> > ... even the majority of linguists reject Esperanto ...
> 
> Er, could you expand on that?
> 
> What is the basis for this statement?  What does `reject' mean here?
> 
> Mark
> 
> ======================================================================
> |   rison@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk       |  Esperanto - lingvo inter-nacia  |
> |   rison@vxcern.cern.ch          |       * Mi estas riisto *        |
> ======================================================================

I think he means they don't speak it.

It's probably safe to assume that linguists (amateur or professional) are
more likely to have heard of Esperanto than the average person.  It's not
safe to assume, though, that a linguist who is acquainted with a given
language and chooses not to learn it is somehow 'rejecting' it.

A large number of ELNA's supporters, if I'm not mistaken, do not actually
speak Esperanto, they just choose to support the effort in other ways.

  - Nick@Nite (Nikolaso on irc/#esperanto)
    rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu - University of Minnesota
    Opinions are clearly mine, not the University of Minnesota's
    (So don't tell them what I said!)
