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From: Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Rubbish Speak (was Bigotry)
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Michael Hardy wrote:
> 
>         Why do you classify Esperanto as "rubbish speak"?  Esperanto is as
> much defined by its native and other speakers as is English.  There are
> even verb tenses (specifically, conditional participles) in common use in
> Esperanto that Zamenhoff didn't invent and that are not found in grammar
> books.

I classify Esperanto as rubbish-speak because that is what it is. A highly
(if, from what you say, not completely) defined gibberish. 

How many native speakers of Esperanto are there, by the way. 

(native adj. 1. relating or belonging to a person by virtue of conditions
existing at birth: a native language [Collins])

Did these new verb tenses slowly develop through ages of evolution or did
the Academia Esperanta (or whatever it might be called) sit down one day and
deliberate the problem of conditional participles in order to complete the
job that Zamenhof apparently didn't do a very good job on.

I have renamed this thread as the word "bigot" does not apply as it implies
intolerence. Nothing in my previous post suggested intolerence, as it wouldn't,
since I am not intolerant towards Esperanto. I think it a very cute hobby for
people with too much time on their hands. I do, on the other hand, think that
if you spent a little less time on trying to learn rubbish-speak, you'd have
more time to learn the meanings of the English words you use.

Pete

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