On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:00:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > The drawback to adopting Esperanto is that it would be an evolving > language and subject to changes in usage and changes in the meanings > of words.
The reason why meanings of words change in an evolving language is because people don't learn the correct meanings in the first place. Or alternatively they want to be "hip" or "cool" by perverting words to mean something that is initially known only to their particular group. Evolution of the language should NOT include changes of meaning of words, but only introduction of new words to express meanings that were not covered by existing words. > For use as an international language, why don't they consider adopting > Latin instead of Esperanto? The world seems to have adopted English, so I don't think you'll convince many people... from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
