Re: Thank you in advance

Then there's also the fact that few are really serious about
linguistics. It's an evil circle: the Esperanto-speakers are the only
people who really need scientific linguistics, so there are few
resources allocated, and because the field is underfunded and
unfocused, the results rarely are of any use for Esperanto. This again
undermines the prestige of linguistic science within Esperanto
circles, and therefore we tend to overlook those linguistic findings
that actually could be used for promoting the cause!

On 16 Okt., 03:13, "Ying" <ying...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I thank you all in advance and apologize that
this posting is not in Esperanto.

I am currently researching Esperanto as a
classroom project for my German course.
My fellow students are expressing a great
deal of interest in the topic of Esperanto,
however, I keep running into the same
obstacle/question:

"It's been over 100 years, why hasn't something
so simple and so useful been more universally
adopted?"

You cannot begin to imagine how interesting
I would find your responses to this question.

Again, thank you in advance,
Paolo


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