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од Frano, 06. јануар 2017.

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Frano (Погледати профил) 06. јануар 2017. 14.54.00

Pini Dunner in his article The Rebirth of Hebrew, among other things, makes the following statement:
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, a Jewish Polish-born physician and inventor, who became obsessed with the idea of creating an “international auxiliary language” that could be used by all nations, eliminating divisions caused by an inability to communicate efficiently. The language he came up with was Esperanto.
Despite great effort and widespread support, the Esperanto enterprise failed miserably, and Esperanto exists today only as a linguistic curiosity, spoken as a second language by scattered groups of aficionados around the western world.
Do you agree with Pini Dunner?

bartlett22183 (Погледати профил) 06. јануар 2017. 20.07.59

In my own opinion, it is a mixed matter. I definitely would not say that "the Esperanto enterprise failed miserably, and Esperanto exists today only as a linguistic curiosity," but I would tend to agree, at least somewhat, that E-o may not have come up to Z's expectations. So I think that Pini Dunner is overstating the case. E-o may not have overtaken the world by storm, but it is definitely (I would say) far more than just a linguistic curiosity.

One issue is that no matter how great the chaotic language situation is in the world, many / most "elites" (for lack of a better term), i.e., professional linguists and government officials around the world, somehow, simply, do not take the matter of constructed international auxiliary languages seriously. Why this is, I myself have never completely understood. Advocates of Esperanto (or any other reasonably contending conIAL, such as Interlingua) have to struggle against this inertia (or even hostility). So I can understand the idea of Raŭmismo as a sort of a community withdrawing into itself in a hostile world, even if I do not agree.

noelekim (Погледати профил) 07. јануар 2017. 02.36.10

Take a look at the website for the 102nd World Esperanto Congress en Seoul this year: http://www.2017uk.net/

If a volunteer-based cultural movement with no political backing or government funds can organise an international event on this scale - the 102nd in the series -, can it reasonably be called a "failure"?

Vestitor (Погледати профил) 07. јануар 2017. 02.51.08

Is it not a fact (as Noelkim alludes to above) that Hebrew was only successfully made concrete as a resurrected language by the creation of Israel as a state? So a great deal of 'heimat' enthusiasm for a lost history, perhaps even some zealotry and bottomless pockets only stopped that from becoming a miserable failure.

Esperanto doesn't have the luxury of either and still it isn't a failure. It's almost a hobby now among pop-linguists to declare the failure of Esperanto. It's beyond boring.

NikolaoKoja (Погледати профил) 10. јануар 2017. 13.10.42

How can a 120+ year-old artificial language with 2,000,000 speakers be considered a "failure"? The author of that article is incredibly biased.

mkj1887 (Погледати профил) 10. јануар 2017. 17.39.43

Ho, hum. Esperanto keeps outliving its obituary-writers.

Серёга (Погледати профил) 10. јануар 2017. 18.02.17

There is Incredibly a fear that esperanto will be allowed to be new Babylon language, but I expect that it can be the language of saving the multiculturalism world.

Altebrilas (Погледати профил) 10. јануар 2017. 21.53.48

A linguistic curiosity? I wish linguists were more curious, and began to study the topic seriously.

Anĝel (Погледати профил) 11. јануар 2017. 03.08.50

No fina venko (yet), but it's certainly not a failure. ridego.gif

Vestitor (Погледати профил) 12. јануар 2017. 17.35.46

Some so-called language experts seem to hate Esperanto for all kinds of crackpot reasons. They (erroneously) believe it is intended to homogenise the language world. You can tell most of their 'research' is culled from similar-minded articles. They make no effort and can thus be summarily dismissed as charlatans.

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