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Horizons, v. 3, issue 3, whole no. 11, March 1942
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HORIZONS GLANCING BEHIND US so much space on that, room forbiddeth detailed discussion on this issue's contents. One minor item, though; how about a nickname for Sus Prog? Susie and Emmy occur offhand, but don't quite fill the bill. I've given up trying to find a pet name for Spaceways, since modesty forbids my calling it The Ace as Ackermann kindly does. This thing, though, is officially Horace. If Jack is correct in his remark on language at the bottom of page 4, it immediately proves that all who like Esperanto do so through lack of mental power, and probably only Frenchmen are more intelligent than we Americans. That would make Georges H. Gallet undisputedly the brainest fan. I must remember to tell him when next I write. He'll be thrilled. If there's room in this Horizons for an abortive On Dit, the awful truth about the meaning of moestitae will be found. And there is as yet no new visit from the late-hour gospel-singers. Milty's Mag: Dec., 1941. I like not a great deal the proposal for inactive FAPA members. I don't feel so strong about it that passage of such an amendment will cause me to end it all, and most of the dislike doubtless comes from the feeling that such inactive members would be getting the benefits of this soul-searing work without helping. It doesn't seem fair to me; it remains to be seen whether the less active FAPAers feel the same way. Anyway, if the amendment is to be passed, dues for active members should be lowered. The FAPA should be breaking even now, and there'd be up to $15, coming in from the inactive members. Dues could easily go down to 60c, at least. '' The argument against Victor Scott isn't too valid. We wouldn't say a bunch of hungry bears are more fit to inherit the earth just because a small boy tossed among them wouldn't last long. Odd John really was the weaker of the two, we think: even with the help of his celebrating expedition into the wilderness, combining the best features of Christ's forty days and a boy scout hike, failed to steel him to face a mentally inferior world. Victor didn't do anything but read for a while and then drown, true; but must the superman be physically superior to the person of today? A lot of the whole thing, though, revolves about the problem of whether there's any sense in trying to read and write about real supermen when the real superman's actions could be as incomprehensible to us as what we do would seem pointless to a Cro-Magnon. The Gallery of the Gods: vol. 1, no. 1. I had never suspected that a hectographed cathedral could look so pretty. The photo's reproduction is a little flat, but no complaint; be thankful for such blessings! Very hopeful I am that this will be with us regularly. Outetos: nos. 2 & 3. Until this issue began to fill up so rapidly, I had planned a lengthy rebuttal to the material. Now, you lucky people, there isn't space. But first of all, I must admit that the putting into Basic of the Bible was a rather foolish thing. I don't see why it was done, except to prove that it is possible. The Bible, of all books, is available in every language, and the Basic version would be useless to one learning the language except in that when something in the Basic version puzzled him, he could get the sense from a comparison with the same passage in his own language's version. On the other hand, it is obvious that the Esperantists should be able to find more serious flaws in Basic, and not waste time on ranting against their version of the Bible. And there are flaws in the arguments in every page of these two Outetos. For instance, the claim that Esperanto is minus nationality is ridiculous. Esperanto is intentionally and almost exclusively European. It is no more similar to Chinese, for instance, than English. (You might just as well make a model language out of the innumerable Chinese dialects and call it "international".) The main thing in fa or of Basic seems to me that the language has a huge start in that several hundred million people already speak it, and it's the mother tongue of more than a hundred million. Esperanto is no one's mother tongue, and fifty-five years of struggling by its adherents hasn't made any more progress than Basic has made in much less time. Why worry with a conglomeration of a half-dozen languages which no one speaks when other countries, which are the ones who should worry over whether Americans and Englishmen are too patriotic for their own tongue, seem willing to make regular English a compulsory study in their schools and are showing great interest in Basic? This is concluded somewhere in this issue. You'll just have to hunt.
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HORIZONS GLANCING BEHIND US so much space on that, room forbiddeth detailed discussion on this issue's contents. One minor item, though; how about a nickname for Sus Prog? Susie and Emmy occur offhand, but don't quite fill the bill. I've given up trying to find a pet name for Spaceways, since modesty forbids my calling it The Ace as Ackermann kindly does. This thing, though, is officially Horace. If Jack is correct in his remark on language at the bottom of page 4, it immediately proves that all who like Esperanto do so through lack of mental power, and probably only Frenchmen are more intelligent than we Americans. That would make Georges H. Gallet undisputedly the brainest fan. I must remember to tell him when next I write. He'll be thrilled. If there's room in this Horizons for an abortive On Dit, the awful truth about the meaning of moestitae will be found. And there is as yet no new visit from the late-hour gospel-singers. Milty's Mag: Dec., 1941. I like not a great deal the proposal for inactive FAPA members. I don't feel so strong about it that passage of such an amendment will cause me to end it all, and most of the dislike doubtless comes from the feeling that such inactive members would be getting the benefits of this soul-searing work without helping. It doesn't seem fair to me; it remains to be seen whether the less active FAPAers feel the same way. Anyway, if the amendment is to be passed, dues for active members should be lowered. The FAPA should be breaking even now, and there'd be up to $15, coming in from the inactive members. Dues could easily go down to 60c, at least. '' The argument against Victor Scott isn't too valid. We wouldn't say a bunch of hungry bears are more fit to inherit the earth just because a small boy tossed among them wouldn't last long. Odd John really was the weaker of the two, we think: even with the help of his celebrating expedition into the wilderness, combining the best features of Christ's forty days and a boy scout hike, failed to steel him to face a mentally inferior world. Victor didn't do anything but read for a while and then drown, true; but must the superman be physically superior to the person of today? A lot of the whole thing, though, revolves about the problem of whether there's any sense in trying to read and write about real supermen when the real superman's actions could be as incomprehensible to us as what we do would seem pointless to a Cro-Magnon. The Gallery of the Gods: vol. 1, no. 1. I had never suspected that a hectographed cathedral could look so pretty. The photo's reproduction is a little flat, but no complaint; be thankful for such blessings! Very hopeful I am that this will be with us regularly. Outetos: nos. 2 & 3. Until this issue began to fill up so rapidly, I had planned a lengthy rebuttal to the material. Now, you lucky people, there isn't space. But first of all, I must admit that the putting into Basic of the Bible was a rather foolish thing. I don't see why it was done, except to prove that it is possible. The Bible, of all books, is available in every language, and the Basic version would be useless to one learning the language except in that when something in the Basic version puzzled him, he could get the sense from a comparison with the same passage in his own language's version. On the other hand, it is obvious that the Esperantists should be able to find more serious flaws in Basic, and not waste time on ranting against their version of the Bible. And there are flaws in the arguments in every page of these two Outetos. For instance, the claim that Esperanto is minus nationality is ridiculous. Esperanto is intentionally and almost exclusively European. It is no more similar to Chinese, for instance, than English. (You might just as well make a model language out of the innumerable Chinese dialects and call it "international".) The main thing in fa or of Basic seems to me that the language has a huge start in that several hundred million people already speak it, and it's the mother tongue of more than a hundred million. Esperanto is no one's mother tongue, and fifty-five years of struggling by its adherents hasn't made any more progress than Basic has made in much less time. Why worry with a conglomeration of a half-dozen languages which no one speaks when other countries, which are the ones who should worry over whether Americans and Englishmen are too patriotic for their own tongue, seem willing to make regular English a compulsory study in their schools and are showing great interest in Basic? This is concluded somewhere in this issue. You'll just have to hunt.
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