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From: Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: Rubbish Speak (was Bigotry)
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George Partlow wrote:
> 
> Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
> 
> >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   ^^^^^^^^^^

>   Hmmm ... Est-ce que c'est une innovation... ou vous ne connez pas bien
> l'ortographe?   ;-)

Non - il s'agit tout simplement de ne pas penser avant de frapper!

(No - it's simply a case of not thinking before I type!)

BTW it's 'vous connaissez', not 'vous connez' (ou est-ce que vous deconnez!) :-)

> 
> 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.
> >
> 
> Rubbish = "useless waste" (Am.), "nonsense, tommyrot" (Brit.)
> Gibberish = "senseless, unintelligible speech"
> 
> Well, yes, since clearly you've never learnt any Esperanto, it is (a)
> incomprehensible to you and (2) useless to you.

But even if I spent my life learning it it would STILL be useless to me.

> My copy of the Oxford
> English Dictionary would be equally incomprehensible and useless to one
> of my Volga German ancestors (except perhaps as a crude sort of hammer,
> or doorstop?).  It is just barely possible that the peasant in
> question, through dint of some applied mental effort, could have
> learnt some English and suddenly found some use for the OED... or perhaps
> that is sheer fantasy.

Yes. And? But learning English or French would have been much more beneficial
to them than learning Esperanto. It's rather like my looking back at all
the Latin I learnt at school (which I have now entirely forgotten) and 
thinking that I would have better spent my time learning German.

> Bigotry?  Intolerance? No, merely "deliberately offensive", I should
> say.... but one can perhaps presume that Air Traffic Control work imposes
> such a strain on the nerves that ones normal equanimity and good nature
> disappear on occasion, and forgive such occasional lapses in good
> manners... ;-)

Not quite - I'm in computer support! I just have a tendence to be somewhat
offensive when someone calls me a bigot.

Pete

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