dave5dave5dave | Re: Big Brother
Big Brother implies a lot of power (and respect from your side) - I
wouldn't go that far. I saw a post the other day however that said
Esperanto is the Joe Clark of IALs. That's pretty funny if you're
Canadian. Here's what it said:
"Esperanto is the Joe Clark of conlangs (Joe Clark up to 2 years ago
that is), the guy that hangs around for too long, doesn't let anyone
else have the spotlight and makes sure that no-one else has a chance
to have any attention, but at the same time has next to zero
popularity among the people at large."
I'm not usually into the Esperanto-bashing myself but that was a
pretty funny image. We had to put up with Joe Clark for about four
years until he finally decided to retire and stop standing in the way
of the merger.
--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, Jacques Dehée
<jacquesdehe@y...> wrote:
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> Esperanto was born from fair ideal.
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> But time that changes everything
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> gave rivals to be crushed
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> by unfair means.
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> The ideal became: penetrate,
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> control and sabotage rivals,
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> kill every hope of gaining
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> a language for the world.
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> Esperanto is our Big Brother.
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