Written by This is, as requested by a reader of the Association’s website, a concise FAQ about Esperanto’s supposed advantages: Note: Information and questions are being added to the FAQ thanks to the comments made by visitors. 1. Esperanto has an existing community of speakers, it is used in daily life, it has native speakers… Sorry, I [...]
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How many words do we use in daily speech? A new study from the Royal Spanish Academy on language acquisition
According to the members of the Royal Spanish Academy (the Real Academia Española), humanities have experienced a decrease in importance for younger generations, English is becoming predominant, language in general is poorer in the Media and in all public speeches, classical languages disappear, people play less attention to reading, and computer terms are invading everything. [...]
READ MORE »How ‘difficult’ (using Esperantist terms) is an inflected language like Proto-Indo-European for Europeans?
For native speakers of most modern Romance languages (apart from some reminiscence of the neuter case), Nordic (Germanic) languages, English, Dutch, or Bulgarian, it is usually considered “difficult” to learn an inflected language like Latin, German or Russian: cases are a priori felt as too strange, too “archaic”, too ‘foreign’ to the own system of [...]
READ MORE »When a language should be considered artificial – A quick classification of spoken, dead, hypothetical and invented languages
Following Mithridates’ latest post and comment on artificial language compared to revived language, I consider it appropriate to share my point of view on this subject. For me, the schematic classification of languages into “natural” and “artificial” could be made more or less as follows, from ‘most natural’ (1) to ‘most artificial’ (20): NOTE 1: [...]
READ MORE »Rhetoric of debates, discussions and arguments: Useful destructive criticism for scientific & academic research, reasons and personal opinions; the example of Proto-Indo-European language revival
Rhetoric (Wikipedia) is the art of harnessing reason, emotions and authority, through language, with a view to persuade an audience and, by persuading, to convince this audience to act, to pass judgement or to identify with given values. The word derives from PIE root wer-, ‘speak’, as in MIE zero-grade wrdhom, ‘word’, or full-grade werdhom, [...]
READ MORE »Esperanto & other invented languages vs. Indo-European for Europe (and IV): Universal Law of Persistence of Error
A recent comment on the post about the so-called Grin Report – which explained the benefits of having one common language for Europe -, gives (unintentionally, I guess) still more reasons to support a natural language like Proto-Indo-European over Esperanto and similar inventions: Le meilleur est l’ennemi du bien, ‘The best is the enemy of [...]
READ MORE »Wikipedia articles: accuracy, vandalism, spam and administrators
I have discovered (among tons of anti-spam spam) a mail from a Wikipedian asking for collaboration on the discussion about some controversy regarding an article on Dnghu’s project, about Indo-European language revival – as far as I’ve read, it seems to deal with the question “is Modern Indo-European as Modern Hebrew?” – Even if I [...]
READ MORE »WordPress Translator Plugin, now version 1.2 in English and Spanish – inglés y español
I’ve added some new pairs which seem to work well – but for the Thai version, which gives usually an error message. Catalan and Polish languages are now translated automatically, as there is no need to copy and paste the text. New languages include Danish, Persian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Hebrew, as well as experimental [...]
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