"If you don't know Latin, what are you doing at 'the Mass' - not praying, I guess, just following along on the page with the English translation"

Ms. ktjpsmom, rather than supposing without any evidence at all what those who prefer the EF are doing at Mass, perhaps you could ask someone who does attend why they choose that form of the Mass.

Shouldn't one be just a little curious as to why some people choose to ride a bus, some from 100 miles away, to come to the EF?

Now, I get that some on this board would go 100 miles to avoid an EF - - I joke, I joke!

"you can skip all human interaction with the community"

What interaction are you referring to, in the context of the Mass?