erinja:To the newbies out there - take a look through the forum archives! I think you'll find the answers to a lot of your questions, plus answers to a lot of questions you never thought to ask, plus some very interesting discussions on every topic.

I've done this multiple times when bringing up something I suspect may already have been talked about, but one thing that I find annoying is when all of your 5 results are actually the identical thread just on the different language versions of lernu. "Whoot 5 threads with what I'm looking for! - Oh wait...". Possibly a good addition to this system would be to limit searches to only the version site you are using...

But that's beside the point. Maybe to warm English speakers into Esperanto there could be a 'Esperanglish' forum, where everyone speaks a mixture of Esperanto and English like Spanglish or Denglish? That could alternatively breed a generation of flawed speakers also...