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Subject: Re: Pri-Esperantaj konferencoj
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:00:00 +0000
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## Nachricht vom 18.06.95 weitergeleitet
## Ursprung : /SOC/CULTURE/ESPERANTO
## Ersteller: nikst@glas.apc.org

Look how they discussed the "eternal" questions of Esperanto some  
years ago:

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mo 3        Is Esperanto the Best Solution ?        1 reehxo
web:eboyd        gen.esperanto        12:38 am  Mar 24, 1991


I personally believe in the concept of a universal second language
and am open to Esperanto as a contender in the final selection
when the nations of the world finally draft an agreement (like the
Postal Union or the radio frequencies agreement ?).
If Esperanto is to be the chosen Global Second language its
proponents should be able to satisfy the following possible
objections:--
Esperanto was first introduced in 1887 before telephones,
aircraft, computers, systems management and the liberation of
women with an awareness of sexism in language.
Esperanto was developed as a European rather than global language
at the height of the colonial powers.  No research was done for
possible contributions from Asian African and other civilizations
who have many unique features in both their sound and sight
systems.
Only history can tell if Esperanto or a newly developed 21st
century global second language will be adopted.
Let's  hear what the true Esperanto believers have to say !~
Will they convince us all ?
Ewan Boyd
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mo 3        Is Esperanto the Best Solution ?  Reehxo 1 el 1
web:gmeadows
gen.esperanto        12:29 am  Apr 11, 1991

Ewan has raised some issues which I would like to address.
First of all, various delegations to the old League of
Nations and the United Nations have tried to get official
recognition for Esperanto -- with varying degrees of success
or failure, depending on how you look at it.  The Universal
Esperanto Association, a non-governmental, international
organization, maintains offices at the UN in New York.
At the 1987 annual meeting of UNESCO (United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization) in Sofia, Bulgaria, a
resolution was passed recognizing the achievements of Esperanto
on its centenary (100th anniversary) and calling on member
states to carry out educational work on Esperanto.

Personally, I think that no government or intergovernmental
organization will ever "adopt" Esperanto or any language
as a common medium of communication without massive, global
grassroots pressure.  Esperantists are not waiting for
history to decide the matter -- we are deciding it for
ourselves by using the language.

The record shows that there are strong Esperanto movements
outside Europe -- in China, Japan and Korea, for instance.
It is indeed true that most of the Esperanto VOCABULARY
is derived from the Romance languages.  But Esperanto
has characteristics which are quite "foreign" to the
Indo-European languages: its agglutinative quality, syntax
and regularity.

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