John McWhorter, Esperantisto

En Septembro 2006 mi lernis ke John McWhorter, uson-negra konservativulo kaj lingvisto, laŭdire konas/komprenas Esperanton. Mi malamas ĉiujn negrajn konservativulojn, kaj mi surfekis lian libron Aŭtentike Negra. Se vi povas legi la anglan lingvon, vi povas legi mian recenzon inter miaj ceteraj recenzoj ĉe amazon.com. McWhorter, kies profesia fako estas lingvistiko, estas specialisto pri kreoloj. Mi tamen malamas lin, sed la ligo kun Esperanto estas notinda. Legu sube fragmenton el intervjuo.

[Verkite anglalingve 17 Sep 2006]

I just discovered that John McWhorter, black conservative and linguist, knows Esperanto. I despise all black conservatives, and I trashed McWhorter's book Authentically Black. If this stuff interests you, you can read my review lodged amidst my other amazon.com reviews.

But the interesting fact of the day is that McWhorter, a specialist in creoles, knows Esperanto. I don't detest him any the less, but it's still noteworthy:

Booknotes, March 2, 2003
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John McWhorter

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LAMB: What are the scope of those 12 languages that you can read?

MCWHORTER: Oh, let's see. I don't think about it much anymore. There's French and there's Spanish and there's Italian and there's Portuguese. There is German and there's Dutch and there's Swedish. There is Hebrew. There's Russian. There is Swahili. There's Japanese. And what am I leaving out? Something. . .

(CROSSTALK)

MCWHORTER: . . . Esperanto.

LAMB: Esperanto?

MCWHORTER: Yes.

LAMB: Which is what kind of language?

MCWHORTER: Esperanto's an artificial language that was created by a peaceful-minded gentleman in the late 1800s. And there are still Esperantists around. It's supposed to be an international language. Really, it's a kind of a watered-down Romance language, and I always just thought it was cute, really. So (UNINTELLIGIBLE)