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in reply to a message by Daffodil
Hi !!!
Esperanto always makes me laughing. I'm studying languages so I know what it is.
How people used to hope that an artificial language could work? It's impossible! Languages are History, languages are Communication, languages are..a Million little changes brought by Chaos, by People themselves!
You can plan a new alphabet, you can stardardize a Pidgin or a minor language creating a new lexicon. But also mixed languages were born by Contact, not in a "laboratory".
Languages are the Soul of the Humankind. You can't create any International language that has not any history behind it.
Sorry...I love languages and I know the hope behind Esperanto. But this trying was so naif!
About names:
I like:
Koralo (m)
Argento (m)
Fiera
Karesinda
Safira
Stelara
Tondra
Vespera
Personal Name Lists https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/125456
Esperanto always makes me laughing. I'm studying languages so I know what it is.
How people used to hope that an artificial language could work? It's impossible! Languages are History, languages are Communication, languages are..a Million little changes brought by Chaos, by People themselves!
You can plan a new alphabet, you can stardardize a Pidgin or a minor language creating a new lexicon. But also mixed languages were born by Contact, not in a "laboratory".
Languages are the Soul of the Humankind. You can't create any International language that has not any history behind it.
Sorry...I love languages and I know the hope behind Esperanto. But this trying was so naif!
About names:
I like:
Koralo (m)
Argento (m)
Fiera
Karesinda
Safira
Stelara
Tondra
Vespera
Personal Name Lists https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/125456
This message was edited 5/29/2019, 7:47 AM
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I don’t know much about Esperanto but my understanding is that it was supposed to be a “lingua franca” rather than replace actual languages? And it’s kind of advantageous to have one that’s no one ‘s native language, as opposed to using English which put s Anglophones in such a privileged position.
But obviously a nice idea doomed to fail, it would be hellishly hard to learn and pronounce for most East Asians, for instance.
But obviously a nice idea doomed to fail, it would be hellishly hard to learn and pronounce for most East Asians, for instance.
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Hi Fiammetta !!!
I agree with you!
Esperanto could be a 'lingua franca' and that's great because as you said English puts all the other languages in a lower lever and this is negative, I agree with this fact.
The problem is technical unfortunatelly.
I live in Turin and I see in my uni some newspapers written in Esperanto. But who can speak this language?
A lingua franca could not be a lingua franca if the countries don't axcept it.
And these countries don't axcept it because they still have their own languages full of history.
It is a spiral that will never stop.
I agree with you!
Esperanto could be a 'lingua franca' and that's great because as you said English puts all the other languages in a lower lever and this is negative, I agree with this fact.
The problem is technical unfortunatelly.
I live in Turin and I see in my uni some newspapers written in Esperanto. But who can speak this language?
A lingua franca could not be a lingua franca if the countries don't axcept it.
And these countries don't axcept it because they still have their own languages full of history.
It is a spiral that will never stop.
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I agree about it being naive! But I also appreciate how it was made with good-intentions and the whole philosophy behind it even though it was kind of short-sighted.
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I get this, and I agree with the preservation of languages that may not be spoken by many people, for the basis of their history. I believe that books should be published and conversations held in as many different languages as arise from as many different cultures that want to speak them. But I don't think Esperanto has to be adopted as a worldwide common language to be useful to at least some people.
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