Same comment as before for this one.

not everybodyu understands your English, FeuDrenais, why don't you try another language with GrizaLeono ?

@sacredceltic:

Thank you for your suggestion. However, I don't know what language GrizaLeono is most comfortable with (apart from Esperanto), and so cannot accomodate.

That being the case, I went with English, since it is the most commonly used language in the world, and the one likely to be recognized by most people.

The benefits have already made themselves visible. Because I used English, I unwittingly brought you into the conversation. With your assistance, I'm sure that we can solve this problem quickly and efficiently. Perhaps you could translate my comments into Esperanto for GrizaLeono?

@GrizaLeono:

I've marked all the Uighur-Esperanto links that I've come across. Let me know if I should keep them linked or not.

I don't want to interfere. I'm merely suggesting that the absence of response might be owing to the language. i would not be surprised that people speak both Esperanto and Uyghur. Esperanto used to be very disseminated in fromer USSR, before Staline decided to to exterminate its speakers ruthlessly.

That's a very interesting theory. However, I would be extremely surprised.

And "interfere"? Not at all. You'd be doing us both a great service. Although, a no-response time of... 15 minutes? I'd be highly worried if replying to comments within 15 minutes suddenly became a standard here.

You would be extremely surprised because you're much too young to know what Esperanto has been in the former USSR before the purges.

Partially, Sir. I recognize my youth and defer to you for guidance on these matters. However, I don't recall hearing of things being easy for Uighurs in the USSR, and I imagine that very many struggled to learn Russian, nevermind Esperanto.

The other reason why I'd be surprised is because if an Uighur had learned Esperanto in the USSR while under heavy oppression, for him to come here now at his age and spend his time on things like Tatoeba would be something very unique. Not impossible, but unlikely. Using the internet for learning languages is still very much a luxury (how many current, active Tatoeba users have ever lived under oppression, I wonder?). As far as I understand, people from backgrounds where hardships are present are less likely to use the internet for those purposes.

But I can't support any of that with hard evidence. You could very well be right. Forgive my inexperienced ramblings.

ahah! But you forget another option: A Russian from a Uyghur region. Many were exiled there, including ethnic Germans or ethnic Balts from western USSR who were deported to Kazakhstan...

I don't see them as having it easy either... And why would he have 700+ sentences in Esperanto, and 0 in Uighur and Russian?

In any case, again, I think you have a very interesting, but unlikely, theory as to the identity of GrizaLeono, who's probably going to open his inbox and wonder why on earth he has 10 e-mails from Tatoeba about a single sentence in which he did nothing wrong linguistically...

ahah, because maybe he is anti-Russian and a promoter of Esperanto here...

Well, he'll probably have fun...

One final note that I forgot to mention.

The Uighurs involved with Russians, or Russians involved with Uighurs, would not learn the Arabic script version but the cyrillic one.

Yes, I understand that there's still the %0.001 chance that he (or she) for some reason taught him or herself the Arabic script that many, many Uighurs in Xinjiang (the only place where it is used, though during Stalin's time it was also cyrillic) currently aren't even fluent in.

Good point!

I even did not know what Uighur means.
I am flemish. And indeed, I do not look to my inbox every hour. It is amusing to read all this supposed things about me. I do speak Esperanto, flemish, dutch (it is not quite the same: I learned it at school), french, german, and I understand english and a bit russian.

to # FeuDRenais: same answer.

to sacredceltic: "not everybodyu understands your English, FeuDrenais, why don't you try another language with GrizaLeono ?" I understand English, but Esperanto is easier...

Dear FeuDRenais: "I've marked all the Uighur-Esperanto links that I've come across. Let me know if I should keep them linked or not". I think you already know that I do not know that language.
I am sorry... I see now that I did give troubles to you. Ĉu vi komprenas mian fuŝan anglan? (do you understand my poor English?)

No worries. It was not a lot of trouble. I already removed all the tags.

You did dash my hopes though... I really hoped that we had a native Uighur-Esperanto speaker, as unlikely as that theory was...

As a side note, this "debate" over your identity was probably a good lesson for all of Tatoeba (a good illustration, rather) as to why it's good to list your languages/info in your profile.

To FeuDRenais:
I tried to add my languages to my profile (and also a picture), but I did not succeed. About your nickname: in Belgium there is a town Renaix (Ronse in flemish. This town is near the language border). So in walloon your name could be "fire of Renaix" :-)

Heh... cool.

In my case, though, "Renais" is just short for "Renaissance" (though you probably guessed that already).