Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Why do you take it personnally ? What are the possible
meanings of the pronoun "we" ? It seems you suppose
that, by "we", I mean conlangers, or users of this
list. But who said that ? I might very well mean that
"we" is mankind in general. This is a very good
example of ambiguity of natlangs. Clearly, there
should be a "closer we" and a "broader we", at least
(plus, of course, a "we" meaning "we both").

I gave the example of Javascript because to me this is
somehow the same problem as for Esperanto. Nearly all
the functions existing in Javascript (that is,
concepts, or semantics) also exist in other computer
languages. But for every computer language, somebody
thought that it would be definitely nicer, or more
clever, if the syntax was just a little bit different
from the other languages. Is this an adult attitude ?
I think it is not. What is important in a language is
the functions it can handle. Why the hell do we have
to spend our glorious youth (did I say "our" ?) on
such stupid things as learning computer language
syntaxes ? If we (meaning mankind) had a standard
syntax for all usual functions, I guess we would be 50
years further in general wisdom and civilization.
Well, just the same as for Esperanto, or whatever
international language.

--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 7, 2004, at 09:40 , Philippe
> Caquant wrote:
>
> > Seems there is a very simple way to go around
> those
> > Esperanto 'special letters', it's to use just 'x'
> > after the letter, meaning there should be an
> accent on
> > it
>
> [snip]]
> > ............ I of course prefer the
> > accentuated Esperanto writing, there is more style
> in
> > it, IMO,
>
> As you observe with 'IMO', it is a purely subjective
> matter.
>
> > but that's only detail.
>
> Yep.
>
> > ............... My God, when shall we be
> > adults at last ?
>
> Dunno - haven't a clue what you're getting at here
> by suggesting some of
> us aren't adults.

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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