First of all, thanks for a very interesting thread! Flagged.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Mass media, Politicians, linguist, speak it, reaLLY?
He said, "Mass media, politicians, most linguist, and the man in the street
ignore it completely".
Actually, Esperanto isn't meant to REPLACE any language or to "do away with" any language. It's additive, so that people who speak different
languages can all have this one in common.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
thatsrightnate.com...
If they want one language, I don’t see why they can’t be bothered to learn English like the rest of us.

5% of the world's people are native English speakers. If he wants us to all speak the same language, we should learn Mandarin, as it's the
most spoken language in the world.
I hadn't heard of Esperanto before today, but I guess I have a totally different thought process than you guys.

With all the communications we
have and in this global environment (my husband talks to people in the Czech Republic all the time for his job), I see this as a very positive thing.
This doesn't mean we have to "give up" anything, and I don't understand people seeing this as a threat or something to fear. It's something to
ADD TO who we are.
I am an American and will always be. I am proud of my country. But if I can learn something that will help me communicate and understand the people
living on the other side of the globe, then I'm all for it. There is nothing here to fear, in my opinion.
I've always wanted to learn Spanish, as I live in the Southwest, but it's hard to learn. If Esperanto is easier, I'm very curious about it and I'm
going to be looking into it.
SO many problems have been caused by the imaginary lines we draw in the sand, claiming one piece of land "belongs to us" and that piece over there
"belongs to you". It's ridiculous, IMO. We're all the same under the sun... We speak differently and have different customs, but we're all human
beings, none better than the rest.
I guess I'm a "new ager" if that's what you call people who believe that we all are truly one people from different tribes around the world... And
I'm proud of that, too.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see a problem with everyone in the world speaking the same language... What is the problem, exactly?
[edit on 14-10-2009 by Benevolent Heretic]