"Language really isn't about information transmission. You speak a language in order to join the group that speaks tha…"

"With Esperanto conferences, it was the level of fluency. I sort of thought it would be like watching a video of "Chap…"

"If you decide to get into Esperanto, that means you're not listening to all the people who say, "Why not learn a real…"

"I enjoy looking at paintings, but I have no desire to paint. That impulse isn’t in me, and I wouldn’t be any good at …"

"No one takes as many pages as English to explain all the exceptions, all the irregularities, and it’s really the matc…"

"English is also very prolific borrower of words from other languages, but that’s not entirely to blame for the incons…"

"The weird things about English got baked in from the very beginning, especially with respect to the printing press … …"

"The vowel system was undergoing a big change, and we were just bringing English back into written form again after it…"

"We were also spelling that oo sound as ou, because that’s how they spell that sound in French, so it made sense that …"

"Even in phlegm, we didn’t have that g in phlegm when we borrowed that word or first used that word. But we dressed up…"