Schaeffer, Martin | AW: [LFN] INEPENDENT OR FINAL

Thanks Stefan,

1) My opinion is that there have to be an alliance between the IAL-projects. The Esperantists (I don´t like the word - generally; I say Esperanto-speakers) have no right to make LFN bad and the members of this group have no right to make Esperanto bad. Frequently new IAL-projects are fishing in the foreign water (its a special frase in german, but i think you will understand it as well), making Esperanto bad or making propaganda especially in Esperanto circles. In this case it is very normal that the Esperantists defense their language. In the other hand it is very naturally that the new projects like to fishing in the Esperanto-water, because it seems to be the more easy way to get new members. Look at this group and you will see that a lot of the persons who learnt or learn LFN at first studied Esperanto. They gave it up to learn it for many different reasons (accusative to difficult, never got friends in Esperanto-circles, language was critized by "better" Esperantists). So it is psychological very normal that there are a opinion "against" Esperanto.

But I have the opinion that it is very important that we are sailing together not making one language bad. That we have to look for new members outside our circles. What we gain if there is one Esperanto speaker minus and one LFN-speaker more; nothing. And if we are fighting one against the other we are loosing our power and finally the movement of the IALs is less strong generally. I we are fighting one against the other we are no only loosing power but we discreditate the IALs in the public opinion. In my opinion generally it is not be possible to say that one language is better than the other. It is a personal opinion, which depends on many factors like origin of the speaker, knowledge in interlinguistic, knowlegde of other languages, knowlegde of other IAL-projects, experiences using IAL projects at congresses, friends in IAL-circles, motivation and so on.

So people: Let us sailing together! If not it is very sure that we will drunk together.

not an unknown esperanto-speaker, but Martin

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Stefan Fisahn [mailto:sf@e...]
Gesendet: Montag, 6. Juni 2005 14:51
An: LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: Re: [LFN] INEPENDENT OR FINAL

But on the other hand ...

I know some Esperantists and Interlinguists just here  in this
list sailing peacefully and friendly..

bon voles,
sf.

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:30:40PM -0000, jacquesdehe wrote:
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> Like the Mayflower
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> Lingua Franca Nova is a peaceful ship
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> sailing towards a future, towards another America,
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> but some Esperantists and Interlinguists
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> are considering the ocean theirs
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> and are viewing every new auxlang projects
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> as irrelevant pirates to be sunk.
>
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