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Skriven 2007-05-28 09:54:01 av alexander koryagin
     Kommentar till en text av PETER COGGON (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Espereanto
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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

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Hi, PETER COGGON! How are you?
on Wednesday, 23 of May, you wrote to ALEXANDER KORYAGIN about "Espereanto"

 PC>   Well I found on part of the answers I had to find.

 PC>   Here is the one about Espereanto that came into the BBS
 PC> a few days ago.    Along with a host of others to read and
 PC> to answer back.

 PC>   Hope you enjoy Andy G0TEZ's posting. He lives in the UK.


[Sorry, skipped]
 >> L.L.Zamenhof had noticed the mixture of languages in the
 >> balkans wnere he lived and,in the hope (Esperanto means
 >> 'I hope.' of getting people to communicate and promote
 >> peace, he came up with this artificial language.
 >>
 >> At one point, there were in excess of 3,000 people, the
 >> population of Norway, speaking Esperanto. The USSR
 >> transmitted programmes in it and distributed learning
 >> materials for people who wanted a world language.

Nevertheless actually none of us CANNOT print messages in Esperanto. Some
letters demand a special keyboard driver to type; few programs allow you to
read Esperanto text correctly. The only way out - to make Esperanto text be
printed on any computer keyboard which has basic Latin symbols.

 >>
 >> It was an easy language, based mainly of Latin but had
 >> the problem with all the artificial languages, namely,
 >> that the grammar is not the hard part to write but the
 >> problem comes with the vocabulary. Not only were there
 >> some howlers with Esperanto but while it was easy for
 >> Europeans. It was almost as hard as English for other
 >> people such as Chinese,Arabs etc.4

It cannot be. Any strict logical language without exceptions is much easier
than English.

 >>
 >> So they learned English which had spread throughout the
 >> British Empire and, with the onset of air travel and
 >> computers, had taken over the business world. MTV has
 >> spread US English through the world's teenage population.

99 percent of those who allegedly have learnt English don't speak English
actually. They speak barbaric 1-2 thousand words language. When learning
English, it is very easy to get the level of English which is spoken by
African tribe in South Africa; to ask "eat", "go", "buy" etc.
But when you want to improve you level and speak as educated human you
ought to spend  years to lift up your English to this second high level.
English is too illogical and inconsistent so that most English learners be
able to overcome this second barrier.

Present day, actually, people on Earth are separated and all the contacts
they have are on the level "eat, go, buy". Like in Africa in 19th century.
But when they want speak to each other really, they inevitably will have to
invent true common language. To get real information from each other, not
just "eat, go, buy".


 >>  What prompted this bull was the fact that I have recently
 >> watched two Sci Fi films, one where the aliens used Cornish.
 >> Now spoken by about a thousand people and the other, I
 >> realised, had the Aliens speaking Esperanto.
 >>
 >>  So I wonderd if anyone still spoke it. The last time I saw
 >> it was on packet but with the contributions diminishing,
 >> Esperanto is one of the many topics which has gone - Is
 >> there anyone left who can answer my question.
 >>

I do believe that the common language must be a business not only a small
group of people. When people will really need a common language, Esperanto
will be relevant. I am sure it is very easy for school children. Anyway it
is good that some people keep the language. And while it is not too
widespread there is time to improve it.

[...To beer or not beer - that is the question]
Bye PETER!
Alexander
fido7.english-tutor 2007



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