On 12/08/2012 13:06, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > Am 2012-08-12 13:06, schrieb Sven Barth: >> On 12.08.2012 12:35, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: >>> What could be an alternative? >> >> One could try to use the language that was planned as an >> international language: Esperanto ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto ) >> > > Then why has this not been chosen by all (most) countries in the > world to teach in school? Why is english the preferred language? I > doubt that this is a global conspiracy. > > I learned Esperanto when I was about 7 years old. It may sound a bit bitter from that perspective, but there are the problems I think why it didn't 'finally win' yet (yes there was a philosophy of 'final victory/fina venko' when I learned it) :
- children learning it from birth as a first language eventually turn it into something that no one who learned it as a second language, can comprehend (they think it too fast for anybody else and simplify pronunciation where it shouldn't be) or have very hard time comprehending - in it's country of birth (Poland) it has nowhere near recognition and weight it deserves - partly because it's been used as a cheap way of making your way to the West to make street trade and other shoddy business; also I am guessing the former socialist countries' secret service was infiltrating the Association though no one ever admitted to that (that I heard of) or everybody are thinking so.... (there was times when you could have been denied a job just for having foreign friends). - because of the above, there are a lot of Esperanto users who don't get to any cons, don't register to any gatherings or associations, think of any organizations as vile, and so they can't pull their weight enough. - the long overgrown philosophy of 'the final win'/'fina venko' and the attitude of some (admittedly, wholehearted devotees, I know one personally) and the inability of accepting new ideas from new people, and some notable friction against 'somebody making money on using it' (sic). and the half-serious - there is the sworn translators lobby in the European Parliament ;) (and TTT means tut-tera texajxo : all-earth web literally :) To add some sweet into all that bitterness, Esperanto allegedly pops up on more pages, just after english, than any other national language (last heard of this ca. 2005) (yes, it allegedly beat spanish too in these figures) Bitterly, Lukasz. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
