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Olympics and Esperanto Discussion

de Greyshades, 15 février 2010

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Langue: English

Greyshades (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 06:28:59

It just occured to me that since the Olympics an international event with people all over the world, and Esperanto is an international language with speakers all over the world (more are less), the two would make natural allies. Thoughts?

marianu (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 07:16:24

Greyshades:It just occured to me that since the Olympics an international event with people all over the world, and Esperanto is an international language with speakers all over the world (more are less), the two would make natural allies. Thoughts?
Jup, that would be great. Still, English currently pretty much dominates the picture. People pick up what is handy and Esperanto is, in most cases, not. We need to raise awareness of Esperanto both at the athletes and Olimplic officials level. And promote Esperanto during the games themselves.

Rogir (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 10:00:42

Someone has already started a campaign to promote Esperanto among athletes who will go to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
http://olimpikoj.blogspot.com/

Uvi (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 13:22:23

Something out of this world would be for Esperantio to send its own squadron of athletes and for these athletes to collect a few medals to create awareness about the Esperanto world sal.gif

Of course, this is daydreaming lol

ceigered (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 15:35:15

Rogir:Someone has already started a campaign to promote Esperanto among athletes who will go to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
http://olimpikoj.blogspot.com/
That'd be a good idea seeming as there are many Esperantists in Brazil.

@ Uvi
I'll be an athlete if you sponsor me lango.gif
The 4 metre sprint up the stairs the fastest event!

andogigi (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 18:09:09

Uvi:
Of course, this is daydreaming lol
Well, it would be if you expect ME to bring home a medal! rido.gif

But seriously, I remember hearing that IOC's official languages are English and French. Anybody know how and why that decision was made?

Miland (Voir le profil) 15 février 2010 19:12:06

andogigi:I remember hearing that IOC's official languages are English and French. Anybody know how and why that decision was made?
The two working languages of the UN Secretariat are English and French, so maybe there's a connection.

Rogir (Voir le profil) 16 février 2010 14:39:35

The olympic movement was founded at the end of the 19th century by a Frenchman, so it was the most logical choice at the time.

qwertz (Voir le profil) 16 février 2010 20:53:50

Uvi:Something out of this world would be for Esperantio to send its own squadron of athletes and for these athletes to collect a few medals to create awareness about the Esperanto world sal.gif

Of course, this is daydreaming lol
La Loko still did that in the past (youtube). rideto.gif

Off topic: La Loko: Kio estas bruliĝo? and la koko aŭ la ovo?

trailer for Espero / antaŭfilmo de Espero

ceigered (Voir le profil) 17 février 2010 16:59:56

My justificational understanding for why it's French and English is because they are the two most recent lingua francas. English is spoken in many places for no decent reason lango.gif, and French is a big lingua franca particularly in the press.

It won't be long though, and I bet we can expect to see Spanish and Chinese joining the ranks of Olympic languages. The problems though are neutrality (Spanish has a good deal of that, Chinese not much so (due to limited speaker range), and maybe competitiveness (I know China are big in the Olympics, but I don't know about Spanish speaking countries unfortunately). So Spanish more likely that Chinese if it has a healthy amount of competitors who speak it (and bring in fans or viewers who speak those languages etc). Esperanto, meh, probably in 100 years time...

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