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Promoted Esperanto as the International Language on White House 2
FreeXenon-ისა და 17 ნოემბერი, 2008-ის მიერ
შეტყობინებები: 18
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Ironchef (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 15:42:37
It's that kind of attitude that prevents it from spreading.Absolutely not. Warning people to be careful where to plant seeds is not preventing the spread of Esperanto. My comment was just directed to people who are perhaps less careful at reading small print than I am. There are many reasons why I am against that website. I don't think Lernu is the place to go into them.
erinja (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 21:23:29
andogigi:And BTW, I regularly wear my Esperanto hat to customer job sites. I'm frequently asked "what's that" and get laughed at after I explain. I don't care. I've got broad shoulders. The ridicule was worth the few converts / friends I've made in the process.I drink from a lernu mug at work, but few people have ever asked me about it. I'm already the "weird language person" at the office though, I have Italian cartoons on my cube and a couple of little trinkets on my desk picked up from countries most Americans don't even consider visiting.
Rogir (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 21:54:30
andogigi (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 22:38:36
erinja:Oh... My office already thinks I'm weird since I travel all the time and like languages. I'm OK in Spanish and Japanese (meaning I can get around; not fluent). My office staff is convinced, however, that I'm fluent in Chinese, Polish, Danish, Swedish, French, and Croatian simply because I *TRY* to speak those languages when I go to those places. First, they consider it odd to attempt speaking a foreign language when you're in a foreign country, since everyone already knows English anyway. Secondly, because I try, they automatically assume that I must be fluent. It doesn't matter, either, that I repeatedly tell them that I don't understand 95% of what people say to me in the above languages. They think I'm just being modest. Do you see how much educating we have to do? And then convince people, on top of all these other stereotypes and prejudices, that Esperanto is the answer to a problem they don't even want to acknowledge the existance of.andogigi:And BTW, I regularly wear my Esperanto hat to customer job sites. I'm frequently asked "what's that" and get laughed at after I explain. I don't care. I've got broad shoulders. The ridicule was worth the few converts / friends I've made in the process.I drink from a lernu mug at work, but few people have ever asked me about it. I'm already the "weird language person" at the office though, I have Italian cartoons on my cube and a couple of little trinkets on my desk picked up from countries most Americans don't even consider visiting.
EL_NEBULOSO (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 22:44:45
I am also the "weird language person" at work (though I am European), that's only due to Esperanto. If you learn/speak several other languages, you are supposed to be clever or at least interested in things.
For most people learning Esperanto is still a complete waste of time. Of course, some are interested in the language, but that's a small minority.
Gerald
erinja (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 23:07:48
erinja (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 19 ნოემბერი, 2008 23:13:46
andogigi:My office staff is convinced, however, that I'm fluent in Chinese, Polish, Danish, Swedish, French, and Croatian simply because I *TRY* to speak those languages when I go to those places.I had nearly this exact experience on a school trip to Germany. In my host house, I picked up a German picture book and summarized the story to my schoolmate. I do not speak German, and this was before I studied Yiddish, so I had not even studied a related language yet. But based on the pictures, German words that are similar to English, and a very few German vocabulary words I happened to know, it wasn't exactly rocket science to figure out a story aimed at little kids. The next day, rumor went around the whole school group that I was fluent in German. I tried to explain to them that it was nothing but looking at pictures and figuring things out from similar words, but it didn't matter, they didn't pay attention.
Senlando (მომხმარებლის პროფილი) 20 ნოემბერი, 2008 19:35:49
btw I've also customized my work place to better fit my world views. My locker is pasted with a political flag from Taiwan, and a bunch of foreign writing. I guess i thrive on weirdness...