I've recently lectured twice at the Park Slope Food Coop (16,000 members) on Esperanto. The newsletter (The Linewaiter Gazette available at http://www.foodcoop.com/ ) had a few paragraphs on Esperanto. Thousands of members are likely to have read them. Esperantists Maki Sano and Tomaso Eccardt were at the first event. Here is Maki's photo.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/F0fOGPV4b1JsU-ny9TXx6A
Why is Esperanto worthy of the role World Second Language? Why are national or ethnic languages not worthy of the role World Second Language?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Doesn't your use of the term 'natural languages' in the headline sort of imply that Esperanto is somehow 'unnatural'?! Enough people already object to Esperanto on the grounds that it is supposedly 'artificial' (a pejorative term in English for most people). Personally, I'd prefer 'ethnic' v. 'non-ethnic'.
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