We esperantists tell a sad sick saga of persecution, in chronological order, at the hands of the KGB, the SS and the CIA during the McCarthy era. Stalin and Hitler had hundreds of esperantists sent to the camps and executed for their cosmopolitanism and contacts abroad. (I speak on that subject and use professionally produced posters as a back drop.)

Recently a young esperantist explained that if my siege-mentality syndrome approaches paranoiac levels as I’m composing emails with so-called sus commentary that I need to hyphenate the incriminating content in order to keep AI and Big Brother and the CPC, all in the dark. T-R-U-M-P and T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-M come to mind. Biden his time, and his Secretary of State, the first to blink…

So-called AI will further decimate languages other than English, no doubt about it 🙁
Have you seen this little piece in the Conversation: ‘Your United States was normal’: has translation tech really made language learning redundant?

Got it, but Google looks obsolescent, if not passé, now that Gates is going gangbusters with AI, not to mention Altman to Zuckerberg. Then again, Bezos and Musk, and all the rest of those excessively rich entrepreneurs ensconced in America, would say that about English.

Wall St. sees the writing on the wall. Page and Brin can afford it but it looks like they’re gonna know soon what it’s like to be hit

Consider asking AI what it’s gonna do to language graduates. My oldest son graduates this year with a Computer Science degree!

Sir Isaac Newton gave 3 separate predictions (all prior to 2060) for the end of the world.

To think that their language is the best is an afflictions shared by many people … Google tells me that the following are frequent searches related to English: “Why is English the best language?” “Why is English so great?” “Why is English a superior language?” …

Methinks, many, if not most, followers of Baha’u’llah * (pronounced approx: BaHoLa; 1817-1892) of Persian extraction (i.e. the majority of the eight million strong Baha’i diaspora) think wrongheadedly that Arabic, not Farsi, equally wrongheadedly, in due course will prevail:

* “It is beloved of God that all should speak in Arabic, which is the richest and vastest of all languages. Were anyone to be aware of the richness and vastness of this perspicuous tongue, he would choose it as a universal language of communication… However, Persian is not as rich as Arabic; in fact all the languages of the earth seem limited when compared to the Arabic language.”