Tanja, A bit off the subject, but relevant to questions you've raised. To my knowledge, there were 60,000 esperantists in the world before the WW2. 20,000 Russian esperantists disappeared in the Soviet Gulag. Those idealistic linguists were trying to create a new way of international communications without dominant single language. Stalin (you would expect) was promoting Russian language.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Javor [SMTP:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:33 PM > To: Grant, Tania (Tania); emc-p...@ieee.org; 'Lou Gnecco' > Subject: Re: A modest proposal. > > > Well said. > > ---------- > >From: "Grant, Tania (Tania)" <tgr...@lucent.com> > >To: emc-p...@ieee.org, "'Lou Gnecco'" <l...@tempest-inc.com> > >Subject: RE: A modest proposal. > >Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2000, 4:32 PM > > > > > > > Lou, > > > > Esperanto (the language) had international backing. Where is it now? > Who > > is using it? The trouble with language is that it is a thought process > and > > a cultural thing. Changing a language artificially has not worked in > the > > past;-- I doubt that it would work today or in the future. The EMC > > community at large has enough peculiar idioms which are understood > > world-wide. However, creating something artificially would probably > > confuse more people. > > > > The reason we are using English here is that the IEEE EMC-PSTC > (EMC-Product > > Safety Technical Committee) was started here in California, in the good > old > > U.S.A. However, if something like this were started in France or > Germany, > > you and I would be out of luck!!! We should be thankful that so many > > people world-wide share their knowledge with us, even if the English > grammar > > is not always perfect. As long as I understand the point they are > making, > > I am very very grateful. > > > > Danke shoen; Merci; Aciu Jums; Muchas Gracias; Spasibo! > > > > (And forgive my spelling/pronunciation"!) > > > > Tania Grant, tgr...@lucent.com <mailto:tgr...@lucent.com> > > Lucent Technologies, Communications Applications Group > > > > > > ---------- > > From: Lou Gnecco [SMTP:l...@tempest-inc.com] > > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 5:15 PM > > To: emc-p...@ieee.org > > Subject: A modest proposal. > > > > > > Group: > > Having subscribed to this group for over a year now, I am really > > impressed by how easily we hold technical "bull sessions" with emc > > engineers from all over the world. This is a fabulous service of the > ieee. > > There is only one problem with it: ya gotta speak english. > > > > If an engineer can't speak english, he or she is really > handicapped > > nowadays. Like it or not, it has become the "de facto" world language. > > But english is a very hard language to learn. Linguists rank it > up > > there among the most difficult in the world. Our spelling is really > screwy, > > for one thing. > > I hate to see some of our overseas clients - smart people and > good > > engineers - having to struggle with the inconsistencies of the language. > > Many of our own college graduates have problems with grammar and > spelling. > > As a communications engineer, i can tell you that this is not a good > > situation. > > > > I think we ought to simplify it. If we can virtually eliminate > the > > word "he" and erase the suffix "-man" due to political correctness, we > > certainly can substitute "thru" for "through" and "enof" for "enough" > and > > make a few simple changes like that. > > > > Maybe there ought to be a new European Standard: a simplified > > version of English for international use. Sort of a "CE-Mark" version > of > > English to make life a bit it easier for the rest of the world, and to > > encourage more smart people to participate in valuable forums like this > one. > > > > Comments welcomed. > > > > Regards, > > > > LOUIS T. GNECCO M.S.E.E., PRESIDENT > > TEMPEST INC. 112 ELDEN ST. 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