Subj : Re: Language Support
To   : AKAcastor
From : n2qfd
Date : Sun Apr 21 2024 09:41 pm

Hey Chris,
 
 I can't say that I think of myself as multilingual, but I do enjoy language.
I actually missed out on the NY standard diploma (regents) here because of my in ability to get anything out of Spanish in High School only to go on and do a semester of German and Russian at the same time in Community College! 
 I was a student in Prague and spoke little to no Czech getting there but learned enough and became what I'd call functionally illiterate. It was an awesome experience to be a foreign national and having to figure it out. I finished a degree in Classical Studies and had to learn Ancient Greek which I've yet to find much use for... Latin would have served better as I was much more interested in Roman technology. I never really got a great handle on Hebrew despite constant exposure but Yiddish with so much borrowed German grammar made more sense to me. 
  The thing is trust I think. I had to learn to trust myself and the people I was around. The great people of Czech Republic were kind to an American who was doing his best to manage their language. I can remember helping a German family trying to figure out what our coinage was worth here. You don't think about stuff like that till you're across an ocean sometimes! 
  fsx Net runs on a similar principal to the ancient custom of doing what you can for a pilgrim. We have an obligation of patience and mutuality. Hillel said "That Which Is Hateful to You, Do Not Do to Your Fellow!" 
 
  Thanks for the kind words, and maybe my tinkering will make something useful. I think I'll probably work on a theme that can make use of an auxiliary language like Ido probably for the stated reasons of compatibility.I've only run into a few Esperantists and most of us so out of practice that if we can remember Saluton was the common greeting we felt pretty good about it. But it did serve to remind us why we tried it out. 

  Bona Nokton, 

  Malachi//N2QFD

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