On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:14:24AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2003-09-30 02:11:43 +0100 "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> > wrote: > > >MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > >>To be fair, the joke in poor taste is that we demand people speak > >>English > >>on this list, but my thoughts on that are well-known -- > >>http://ttt.esperanto.org/ > >Why, because more people speak Esperanto? > > No, because far fewer people can play the "1L speakers making fun of > the 2L speakers" game. It's a more level playing field and sort of a > handshake, both reaching out as far, rather than native speakers > making little effort to accommodate. This appears to be a variation on the "If we can't all be rich then we should all be poor" idea, which I reject. Besides, I'm quite capable of finding ways to make fun of people which don't depend on that weird pidgin they call a language. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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