tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post114332815155347857..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Phew, for a minute there I lost myself.The Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1144009387106227042006-04-02T21:23:00.000+01:002006-04-02T21:23:00.000+01:00Hey, im just impressed when i come across anyone w...Hey, im just impressed when i come across anyone who knows enough about Esperanto actually have an opinion on it! Personally i dont subscribe to the whole Esperanto ideology thing either. Im not an esperantist, just a person who speaks esperanto. It is a very useful tool for making friends all over the world without having to learn twenty different languages or even leave your own living room. Great blog btw :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1143999588884136182006-04-02T18:39:00.000+01:002006-04-02T18:39:00.000+01:00Thanks for this. I'm sorry for being disparaging a...Thanks for this. I'm sorry for being disparaging about Esperanto; I feel it is unlikely to achieve its original objective, but I am sure it is an interesting language to study. <BR/><BR/>As for the Blind Austrian Esperantists, wow, you learn something new everyday. :-)The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1143989982218919502006-04-02T15:59:00.000+01:002006-04-02T15:59:00.000+01:00Wow Esperanto gets a mention, albeit a disparaging...Wow Esperanto gets a mention, albeit a disparaging one! I once read an interesting article on E-o & disability. It said that statistically the proportion of disabled people in the E-o community was much higher than in the world at large. The suggestion was that Esperantists were necessarily tolerant of those different to themselves, & so did not discriminate against the disabled, or indeed anyone else. There are particularly high numbers of blind esperantists, possibly because right from the start E-o has tried to be an accessible language. There are even disabled esperanto societies, like the association of blind austrian esperantists, which i thought was as minority as a club could get, til i heard of the polish esperantist railway workers society! In reality the idea that all esperantists are completely unprejudiced is as utopian as Esperanto itself. But its arguable that all esperantists are by definition a little out of the ordinary, and so in Esperantoland a disability is neither here nor there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com