vejktoro:http://de.lernu.net/komunikado/forumo/temo.php?t=3...

I'll try to check this out in a moment. I feel like I jumped into a building with lots of conversations going on and many in a mysterious language that I don't know very well. I guess when can all identify with the bullied smart kid. I liked it a lot at work when we hosted "No bullying Week" at Barnes and Noble and wore my button happily.

People can easily be blinded by jealousies and I agree we have to be understanding enough. Talking with many words beyond the comprehension of others can seem like annoying whispering only louder. Not everyone can drop exanaphobia and prejudice towards what we're up on to avoid most irrational behavior and we all have some irrational behavior, even if we don't always feel like admitting it.

These comments are helping me make communication goals. I'm sort of glad that I'm keeping one of my professional plans beyond plan B as preschool as that really has helped me when I have taught foreign language. I know many even make sure to make it clear while training foreign language teachers that we shouldn't just cover the subject. If the student doesn't learn it by heart so that they can really be rolling communicatively, then, the teacher may deserve to wave the student's flag of failure, too. Both the teacher and the students have to meet each other, maybe not exactly halfway but at some reasonable midpoint.

Then, what sort of teacher wouldn't be a student of life?

As a student of life, I see that some are higher on different totem poles than me and make great role models. (Is everyone familiar with totem story poles that some indigenous people use on the Northwest coast of North America?) Fluent Esperanto people are able to go up to the tops of their totem poles with the grace of trapeze artists, Trapeze artists may not know Esperanto but their story has them high on up on their own pesonal totem poles. Then, what about space people? Even if we've had people in the family in the space program who wouldn't admire how high up on the totem pole space people go? There's seems to go right up beyond the atmosphere. It's admirable. Now, of course I've described things that can be differnt facets of the same persons life. What if there was a Esperantist, that was an excellant trapeze artist, and a space person, too? Wow, that would really be someone impressive to meet, not that I wouldn't appreciate my friends with shorter totem poles.

Esperanto is really cool, but the subject came up the other day with a perfect stranger, that learning a foreign language, does take time and effort. Even the smartest people have to ration their time one way or another. I wonder what long term communication goals should be?

NASA for example uses mostly English, even on facebook US & facebook Europe.

darkweasel:Uh? All of the ones I listed on page 2 are longer:

I didn't read the whole thread.