rcardwell1988:Erinja, I find it absolutely hilarious that you are giving anyone advice on what does or doesn't "come off well" since almost every post of yours I have ever come across did not "come off well" to me.

Thanks for your feedback! Community service announcement - if interaction with me is enough to put someone off from learning Esperanto, they should probably not learn it. The community has a wide variety of different kinds of people in it, and to be happy in the Esperanto world, you need a high tolerance for dealing with people who are strange/rude/insulting/clueless. I am surely not to everyone's taste, but I'm not even close to the worst the community has to offer.