The Groves of Academe

Arguments in support of Esperanto often include the assertion that it is a living language. Interestingly, this may, in a twisted but regrettably true way, be an argument AGAINST Esperanto for an important segment of the population, namely, academics, judging by something that Sinclair Lewis said (according to the Wikipedia article on him) in his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930:

"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."

BTW - reminds me of the expression “safely dead” that C.S. Lewis applied to deceased authors.

fyi. – Mike Jones