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Vandalism

Misleading edit summaries count as vandalism. Don't do it. Palosirkka (talk) 17:45, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion contested: Meadow Hall School

Hello 178.49.18.203, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Meadow Hall School, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to schools. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:30, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

April 2013

Hello, I'm Yintan. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Translations of The Lord of the Rings with this edit without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks, Yintan²  08:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

JRR Tolkien on Esperanto

"I take an interest, as a philologist, and as every philologist should, in the international-language movement, as an important and interesting linguistic phenomenon, and am sympathetic to the claims of Esperanto in particular. I am not a practical Esperantist, as it seems to me on reflection an adviser should at least in some measure be. I can neither write nor speak the language. I know it, as a philologist would say, in that 25 years ago I learned and have not forgotten its grammar and structure, and at one time read a fair amount written in it, and, since I am trained to that sort of thing, I feel competent to have an opinion concerning its defects and excellencies. That being so, I feel that I could make no useful contribution, except as a philologist and critic. But it is precisely my view of the international language situation, that such services, however good in theory, are in practice not wanted; in fact, that a time has come when the philological theorist is a hindrance and a nuisance. This is indeed the strongest of my motives for supporting Esperanto.

"Esperanto seems to me beyond doubt, taken all round, superior to all present competitors, but its chief claim to support seems to me to rest on the fact that it has already the premier place, has won the widest measure of practical acceptance, and developed the most advanced organisation. It is in fact in the position of an orthodox church facing not only unbelievers but schismatics and heretics — a situation that was foretold by the philologist. But granted a certain necessary degree of simplicity, internationality, and (I would add) individuality and euphony — which Esperanto certainly reaches and passes — it seems to me obvious that much the most important problem to be solved by a would-be international language is universal propagation. An inferior instrument that has a chance of achieving this is worth a hundred theoretically more perfect. There is no finality in linguistic invention and taste. Nicety of invention in detail is of comparatively little importance, beyond the necessary minimum; and theorists and inventors (whose band I should delight to join) are simply retarders of the movement, if they are willing to sacrifice unanimity to “improvement”.

"Actually it seems to me, too, that technical improvement of the machinery, either aiming at greater simplicity and perspicuity of structure, or at greater internationality, or what not, tends (to judge by recent examples) to destroy the “humane” or aesthetic aspect of the invented idiom. This apparently unpractical aspect appears to be largely overlooked by theorists; though I imagine it is not really unpractical, and will have ultimately great influence on the prime matter of universal acceptance. N**, for instance, is ingenious, and easier than Esperanto, but hideous — “factory product” is written all over it, or rather, “made of spare parts” — and it has no gleam of the individuality, coherence and beauty, which appear in the great natural idioms, and which do appear to a considerable degree (probably as high a degree as is possible in an artificial idiom) in Esperanto — a proof of the genius of the original author…

"My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: “Back Esperanto loyally”."

J. R. R. Tolkien (from The British Esperantist, May 1932) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.226.30.43 (talk) 15:23, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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