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Language is arbitrary - we have to deal with it

by Tempodivalse, June 9, 2015

Messages: 40

Language: English

Tangi (User's profile) June 11, 2015, 12:07:42 PM

It cannot be applied to Esperanto: you have to deal with it in other languages, because there are people who speak it this way.
With Esperanto, no one has to learn irregularities and obsolete features: people do not owe anything to Esperanto, it's Esperanto that has to comply with people, as no one is speaking in it.

Tempodivalse (User's profile) June 11, 2015, 3:31:12 PM

Tangi:It cannot be applied to Esperanto: you have to deal with it in other languages, because there are people who speak it this way.
With Esperanto, no one has to learn irregularities and obsolete features: people do not owe anything to Esperanto, it's Esperanto that has to comply with people, as no one is speaking in it.
No one speaks in Esperanto? I think I missed the memo okulumo.gif

Tangi (User's profile) June 14, 2015, 10:40:48 AM

jean-luc:I'm wondering who is writing the lessons...
And who buys the bread in it?

orthohawk (User's profile) June 14, 2015, 11:07:09 AM

jean-luc:
Tangi:
jean-luc:I'm wondering who is writing the lessons...
And who buys the bread in it?
the people who speak it I would guess
But we've been informed that no one is speaking it.........

dbob (User's profile) June 14, 2015, 2:10:03 PM

orthohawk:
jean-luc:
Tangi:
jean-luc:
Tempodivalse:
Tangi:no one is speaking in it
I think I missed the memo
I'm wondering who is writing the lessons...
And who buys the bread in it?
the people who speak it I would guess
But we've been informed that no one is speaking it.........
Yes, but those who now have been informed didn’t get the memo back then, when they were speaking esperanto; they didn’t know no one is speaking it...

Wait a minute... what's going on with those frames?... I'm getting kind of kapturna... I mean dizzy...

Tempodivalse (User's profile) June 14, 2015, 2:27:52 PM

Elhana, is that you?

dbob (User's profile) June 15, 2015, 3:43:53 PM

Someone sent me this image allegedly from the future (click picture to enlarge).

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Tempodivalse (User's profile) June 15, 2015, 3:48:43 PM

dbob:Someone sent me this image allegedly from the future (click picture to enlarge).

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Good grief! You mean the Lernu people *still* won't have revamped their website? ridulo.gif

Fenris_kcf (User's profile) June 15, 2015, 7:29:42 PM

Tempodivalse:Good grief! You mean the Lernu people *still* won't have revamped their website? ridulo.gif
Of course not, since it would be against the "Fundamento de lernu.net" (which will be released in July 2017 — 130 years after the Fundamenta Gramatiko). People will advocate for change-proposals, but the Fundamentistoj will stay hard and prevent any modification so that lernu won't adopt the Zeitgeist of the the 22nd century.

EDIT: My 666th post — muhahahaha!

Tempodivalse (User's profile) June 15, 2015, 9:56:31 PM

*scratches head* Was this an analogy to Esperantujo? ... I'm not sure I get it. ridulo.gif

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