Interesting thesis. The development is too recent to really say. Hope
someone will google this up in the year 2500, and comment.

If you can contribute nothing to the discussion other than lame,
immature ad hominems, you may considering not "contributing" at all,

If you can contribute nothing to the discussion other than lame,
immature ad homina, you may considering not "contributing" at all,

Ruud Harmsen <realemailseesite13 at (no spam) rudhar.com.invalid> writes:
Interesting thesis. The development is too recent to really say. Hope
someone will google this up in the year 2500, and comment.

What a dystopian view of the future. For me, the ideal would be that
in 500 years Esperanto is long dead, English has ceased being the
international language with nothing replacing it, and a perfect and
enjoyable Babel willl have descended upon the world.

phoglund at (no spam) abo.fi wrote:
Alexei A. Frounze kirjoitti:


Yeah, just find a guy or a gal who's a little bit nuts to marry
someone like you. Crazy enough to do that.

I gather you are the native speaker of the language of some jackbooted
imperialist conqueror nation who never took the trouble of learning
any minor languages and who finds the idea of revitalizing endangered
languages ridiculous.

The three mentioned languages were invented,

Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
....
The three mentioned languages were invented,

FYI, Coptic is not an invented language.

Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
phoglund at (no spam) abo.fi wrote:
Alexei A. Frounze kirjoitti:

25-member European Union is set towards becoming one country like the
50-member United States of America. Language diversity is the
foundation of both the EU and the US.

Language diversity has been allowed in the US, but has
not been encouraged at all until recently. There were
schools which used other languages, but even ESL was
largely for older immigrants in the past.

Herman Rubin wrote:
Language diversity has been allowed in the US, but has
not been encouraged at all until recently. There were
schools which used other languages, but even ESL was
largely for older immigrants in the past.

I know a number of Russians here in the US, who had been born in the US or
came to the country at a very little age and they don't speak Russian well.
A few months back I saw a little boy and his dad at a supermarket. The dad
would speak Russian to the kid but the kid would always speak English back.
IMO, it sucks when you can't speak the same language with your family
members. I guess the language problem is still pretty much the problem of
immigrants. They're not prohibited to speak either language where
appropriate but they're not supported in learning the new language or the
language of parents.

Alex

My parents would not use any language other than English
at home unless they had guests who had difficulty with
English. Not all did this, but large numbers, and the
idea that the children should not be adept in English
was not at all common.

My parents would not use any language other than English
at home unless they had guests who had difficulty with
English. Not all did this, but large numbers, and the
idea that the children should not be adept in English
was not at all common.

Language diversity has been allowed in the US, but has
not been encouraged at all until recently. There were
schools which used other languages,

Herman Rubin wrote:
....
My parents would not use any language other than English
at home unless they had guests who had difficulty with
English. Not all did this, but large numbers, and the
idea that the children should not be adept in English
was not at all common.

What exactly does that last sentence mean?

In article <1143934705.500291.78290 at (no spam) v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
mb <azythos2 at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:

My parents would not use any language other than English
at home unless they had guests who had difficulty with
English. Not all did this, but large numbers, and the
idea that the children should not be adept in English
was not at all common.

What exactly does that last sentence mean?

Not all immigrants did this, but large numbers did, ...

Continue, please.