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erinja (显示个人资料) 2016年5月19日下午12:06:53
Someone wrote a paper on the influence of Yiddish on Esperanto and I have it somewhere but this influence is not really that significant in the grand scheme of things. French had a far heavier influence.
Esperanto is Eurocentric, that's absolutely true.
ludomastro (显示个人资料) 2016年5月19日下午12:53:17
Alkanadi: It makes [Esperanto] seem a bit Eurocentric.Why would that matter? I'm all for an even playing field in communications; however, I don't think you can have one that is perfectly level unless you go the route of an a priori language with (theoretically) neutral grammar. And how does one decide if grammar is neutral? Is the Japanese "desu" copula more or less neutral that the English verb "to be?"
Not to mention, if we go that route we wouldn't be speaking Esperanto. The language is not perfect but it's perfectly suitable and relatively easy to learn. Perhaps a touch easier for those of us with a European language background but not difficult compared to natural languages. It also fully fulfills Z's hope of being a neutral second language for all. (Or, for the pedantic, it CAN fully fulfill that role.)
Kirilo81 (显示个人资料) 2016年5月19日下午8:48:08
1. This reproach mostly comes from scholars propagating English, which is much more European
2. "European" means the origin, not the actual dissemination of the languages. Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages dominate in Europe, the Americas, and Australia; they are spoken by 2-3 billion people all over the world.
Vestitor (显示个人资料) 2016年5月19日下午8:56:26
Kirilo81:2. "European" means the origin, not the actual dissemination of the languages. Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages dominate in Europe, the Americas, and Australia; they are spoken by 2-3 billion people all over the world.That is an excellent point which ought to put the charge of Eurocentrism to bed once and for all.