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Egmt (Visa profilen) 26 april 2007 17:27:41
www.petitionspot.com/petitions/esperanto
You will find a petition to make the Esperanto the oficial language of the United Nations.
I think this is a great idea. If the United Nations accept that petion the Esperanto will grow in an incredible way.
Let's go and sign it!!!
mnlg (Visa profilen) 26 april 2007 18:12:00
Egmt:If the United Nations accept that petion the Esperanto will grow in an incredible way.I suppose you have a legion of professional teachers ready and waiting
Egmt (Visa profilen) 26 april 2007 19:04:46
richardhall (Visa profilen) 26 april 2007 22:30:27
Andybolg (Visa profilen) 4 maj 2007 19:10:53
1. They will never accept it.
2. The whole point with E-o is that it doesn't belong to any country. It is supposed to be international, you know
erinja (Visa profilen) 4 maj 2007 19:25:46
Senlando (Visa profilen) 4 maj 2007 23:18:55
i guess that was a little off the topic. i'm not against E-o becoming the official international language, but that would completely change the E-o culture. it would be a bitter-sweet situation for current esperantist, but a sweet-sweet situation for the rest of the world (no longer having to learn years of learning hard languages like english to succeed in life.)
erinja (Visa profilen) 7 maj 2007 16:18:58
Senlando:i personalty don't care what the UN does. it's just another hypocritical organization that gives none deserving countries to much power, and completely ignore other countries to the point of not letting them participate in international events. who gave the UN the right to chose what country has sovereignty and what countries don't?A very fitting response for someone in Taiwan
I am not a huge fan of the UN myself, it seems like they like to act as if they are very important, then do nothing to help countries that are in very bad situations, or do nothing against countries doing very bad things to their own citizens (I'm looking at you, Sudan).
I went on a tour of the UN headquarters a few years back. It was very much "Rah-rah go UN, we're so wonderful" the whole tour. They struck me as being a tad out of touch. It didn't really help my opinion of them that the tour guide said that English was "the international language" (she was not a native speaker, herself). I found things very anglo-centric, for such an "international" organization.
I doubt it would actually improve anything to get rid of the UN though, I wonder what could be done to make the organization mean something.