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Pouvez-vous être moins clair S.V.P  
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Well, Jotakarlos and BiraFehera,
I do not want to talk contemptuous about esperanto,
but the intention of creating a worldwide language,
easy to learn, and easy to understand failed completely.
There are at the moment estimated about one million persons
in the whole world, who do speak Esperanto.
If you compair this, for example, with Albanian, which is spoken
by 5 million persons, you could say, the invention of Esperanto
has turned out as a failure!
I myself speak eight languages, so I do like to hear and read
others as well. I think, I even can (almost) follow your
Esperanto, reading your post.
I strumbled over an article about Esperanto, written by
an English linguist. I post just a few parts of it.
It is a somewhat humorous argument against Esperanto.
Why Not to learn Esperanto
Esperanto is:
"Just good enough to inspire anti-revisionist fanaticism"
"Just bad enough, to strike, the general public as risible"
"Easily improvable enough to inspire constant half-baked
-reforms-, whose inventors argue amongst themselves!
Scoring Criterium:
An optimally designed world auxiliary language would be:
1. Clear: all it rules would be explicitly established,
so users can filter out an utterance`s ungrammaticle
parstnys.
2. Simple: involving a minimum grammatical complexity
3. International: as learnable for Tamils, Koreans or Zulus,
as for the Europeans, who already have so much advantages.
4. Elegant: large subjective, striking potential speakers
as being notably easy to pronounce and natural to use.
My contention is that Esperanto contrawise is:
1. Obscure: full of assumed rules and unadvertising usages.
2. Complex: with cases, adjectival concord, subjunctives etcetera.
3. Parochial: disigned to appeal primarity to Europeans.
4. Clumsy: full of hard sounds, odd letters, and absurd words
It looks like some sort of wind-up-toy Czech/Italian pidgin.
And if there is one part of the world, that does not need
a local pidgin, it is Europe, which not only has, at a guess,
the world`s highest concentration of professional polyglots,
but is also the home of the current "global" lingua franca: English.
(still, at least it didn`t choose to be known as "Euro",
_the economic EMU fanciers are clearly un-aware,
that the euro is "Macropus robustus", a kind of wallaby!
But cheer up!
I also know, there is a game-site, who has got
the option, to choose for Esperanto!
So, BiraFehera and/or Jotakarlos,
please translate it all for Miguel, to give that option,
for those of that million, who play correspondence chess, as well! |
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I think Esperanto is very much of its time. Nobody, a hundred years ago would have suggested to people who wanted a common language that they should just learn English so it looked like something else was needed. Now, Esperanto seems hopelessly out-dated but that's mainly because there is a de facto common language and it's a natural language.
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tem um jogador no site que é professor de esperanto. seu nome é "Vallef"
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