But waving a flag is never a good substitute for serious thought and rolling up one's sleeves.
Nick Nicholas, a business analyst from Melbourne, Australia, speaks both Klingon and Esperanto; he is also reputed to be the world's best wordsmith in ultra-logical Lojban.Esperanto is fairly harmonious by neoglossal standards, though splenetic rows sputter between "conlangers", who think made-up tongues are just for fun, and the "auxlangers", who are serious about substituting for English.
Moreover, it could be a serious candidate to substitute current high precision devices, given that positioning devices manufactured with ferromagnetic shape memory alloys have the great advantage that, once suitably positioned, they do not consume energy.
Urging the old to move out of their ample homes is no substitute for serious housing policy.
Ideological triumphalism over peanuts is a pathetic substitute for serious debate about deep rifts in the process of European integration.
But it's no substitute for serious investigative reporting that requires weeks of intelligent inquiry to get to the heart of the problem.
"It's a distraction and a substitute for serious thought about what the police are for and how they should be organised".
Anti-Western sentiment and a sense of collective victimhood were cultivated as a substitute for serious debate on social or economic policy.
In any case, Palestinian economic growth is not a substitute for serious and meaningful negotiations aimed at ending Israel's occupation and establishing an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state.
Confederal ideas have emerged, as in Canada, as the product of not as a substitute for prolonged, serious negotiations over preserving two distinct cultures, two sovereign peoples.
