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ESPERANTO AT THE UNITED NATIONS!!!!!!!!!

ya Egmt, 26 Aprili 2007

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Egmt (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 26 Aprili 2007 5:27:41 alasiri

In this website:
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!!! shoko.gif

mnlg (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 26 Aprili 2007 6:12:00 alasiri

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 ridulo.gif

Egmt (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 26 Aprili 2007 7:04:46 alasiri

As you probably know, Esperanto is the easiest language in the world and I know several people ready to teach it completely free. okulumo.gif

richardhall (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 26 Aprili 2007 10:30:27 alasiri

Ideologically, I agree with you. But from a pragmatic point-of-view, I'm not sure that adoption by the UN would be a help to Esperanto's image in some quarters.

Andybolg (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Mei 2007 7:10:53 alasiri

Haha. That would never work. Let the children learn the language at school, but NEVER EVER let it be any country's national language.

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 okulumo.gif

erinja (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Mei 2007 7:25:46 alasiri

I don't think anyone was suggesting it should become the official language of a country, only of the United Nations (which is about as international as you can get).

Senlando (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Mei 2007 11:18:55 alasiri

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?

i guess that was a little off the topic. lango.gif 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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Mei 2007 4:18:58 alasiri

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 ridulo.gif

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.

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