Re: Who castrated Esperanto?

On Feb 19, 11:16 pm, Iain <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 19, 2:48 pm, LEE Sau Dan <dan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



"Iain" == Iain  <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> The following dictionary has words such as "aŭtobiografio" and
    >> "ateismo"
    >>
    >> And?

    Iain> The whole unique benefit of Esperanto is the small size of
    Iain> its vocabulary, without any loss to the range of ideas that
    Iain> can be expressed, yet here we have words imported from the
    Iain> Romance languages for meanings that could be expressed with
    Iain> the morphemes in the original specification.

Forget  it.   The Esperantists  would  defend  this  by calling  those
non-native  morphemes "international"  words, when  by that  word they
actually mean only "European".

Esperanto is entirely polluted with such Eurocentrism.  It's hopeless.

    Iain> Esperanto for god is 'dio', for example, not "te".

"[Intra-European]  International"  is the  universal  excuse.  Ŭij  ne
necesas lerni  Esperantajn ŭordojn.   Uzu ŭordojn de  inglingvo.  Thej
bas olŭejz "internacionalaj".  ;)

It was Eurocentric from the outset. It's not the Eurocentricity that
castrated it thought. It's the imports, such that it is now just
another Romance language with no outstanding merits.

You sound very much like a nationalist lamenting the ravages recent
foreign influences have brought to his native language. This would be
just too funny, remembering that Esperanto was designed to transcend
nationalisms and national boundaries, but in fact it is just another
consequence of Esperanto becoming more and more similar to non-
artificial languages: it attracts nationalist reverence and,
inevitably, nationalistically motivated internal criticism.
.

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