Esperanto, la lingvo de la amikeco

 

Joy, Love and Friendship  

 

Bona vesperon! Esperanto estas por miaj la lingo de la amiceko per ĉar  gi estas oni lingvo internacia ke kunigas pli homoj. Tio estas tre bona car ni povas diskuto oni lingvo ke ni ciuj povas kompreni facile. Mi pensas ke Espranto estos farigis la lingvo de la amikeco, amas and progeso en la estonteco.

Hello to you all! I’m coming today in front of you to talk about a topic that I didn’t debated too much on my blog, that of constructed languages, and if they are truly worth something.

Esperanto and almost every possible topic that is related to it seems to be of a great controversy in many linguistics groups and forum across the internet. Hate and frustration often mark the messages that users send when they want to give their take on this topic, this is fine, we are living in a democratic world, so that’s understandable.
The problem comes from the fact that some of the comments seem just to be ill intended and they often revolve the idea that Esperanto is a “fake language”. Well…if we think a little about it, we should define what a fake language is and if this notion was attributed with ill intentions to Esperanto.

First of all, if by “fake language” we understand a language that was in a way or the other engineered or its evolution was at some point the subject of detailed planning, a language that was “cleaned” of words that were unwanted do to their origins, a language that was formed from the merge of a number of dialects…if this is the definition of a fake language I must bring to you the fact that the majority of the world’s languages may actually be indeed fake. The majority of languages that enjoy official recognition were at one point shaped in order to fit in some criteria that was often dictated by a political power.

The purest languages would be those that were extremely isolated and that never had too much of an official recognition, like those from Africa, to a certain extent, or like those spoken by the natives of Papua New Guinea or Siberia. Even so, even those languages received certain exterior influences at one point. The right term for Esperanto is that of constructed language, just imagine, a language that would be so accessible and easy to learn that would create a bridge between culture, a language that is not the product of nor affiliated to any nation, a language that doesn’t come from any culture but rather it constructs its own culture.

That’s a language that I would be the proud speaker of, and Esperanto can surely be the language of the geeks, the language of friendship and tolerance in a century in which human rights and brotherly love are put to the test on a daily basis. Esperanto speakers are known to be open minded people that embrace differences and have a pragmatic outlook towards life, a community of cool geeks and language lovers that you might be interested in.

Kun amos,

Iulian