Re: [xmca] On being silent at XMCA

What a nice statement, Michael!
David

On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Wolff-Michael Roth wrote:

> Dear all,
> rather than thinking of English as the language of hegemony and
> cultural oppression, think of it as lingua franca, there is no
> other spoken as widely---Esperanto never has had wide impact.
>
> Then think of English as a MANY rather than as a one, and in this
> move to thinking of speaking Sabir, one of those merchant languages
> that mixes languages for the purposes at hand, shifting
> heterogeneity to an unfamiliar level, but doing nothing other than
> what happens at the heart of English---or French, Spanish, German,
> Russian.....
>
> Language and culture are mêlées, so don't worry about formalists
> and grammarians...
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 28-Sep-07, at 7:10 AM, Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristià wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I feel the same than Nacho!.
> It is hard to deal with language and also with complex content.
> Anyway, english language is the way to be connected and expand our
> knowledge
> in this community.
> I want to thanks every thinker of this continuous conversation.
>
> Juan Espinosa
>> From Chile
>
>
> Nacho Montero García-Celay escribió:
>> Dear all,
>> Mike has suggested me to post the following interchange of
>> messages. He is
>> the boss... :-)
>> Nacho.
>>
>>
>> On 9/27/07, Nacho Montero García-Celay
>> <<mailto:nacho.montero@uam.es>nacho.montero@uam.es> wrote:
>>
>> Mike,
>> It is the first time somebody call me "good english writer"!! Can
>> I put it
>> in my CV? :-)
>> Certainly, it is very hard to me to deal with two ZOPEDs at the
>> same time:
>> the content of the ongoing discussion at XMCA and the form (I feel my
>> thought short working in english...), so it makes me to keep quiet.
>>
>> At 17:47 26/09/2007, you wrote:
>>
>> How come all you good English writers from Spain are so quiet on
>> xmca??
>>> :-) :-))
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
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