Re: Two questions about Esperanto

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à Philippe Caquant :
> >  I definitely vote for "w",
> >well, not "that" W., of course.
>
> All this talk forgets one thing about the history of
> Esperanto: such
> reforms have already been proposed from the very
> beginning (by Zamenhof
> himself for some!) and all were democratically
> rejected. What makes you
> think they'd be accepted now?
I don't think anything of the sort, I'm very
pessimistic about general good will and reason. My
point is simply : if an authority (the kind of
authority that W3C is for HTML) decides tomorrow that
in Esperanto, the sound "w" will be written "w", then
I shall write it "w", because I think that this is
reasonable. Now if the same authority decides that we
should write it "u" with a (damn, I forgot the name
again) on it, I shall write it like they decided, even
if it may cause me some trouble on computer keyboards
(that is, I shall do so if I have the material
possibility to do so); because I think it's not bad
neither, and it doesn't have the slightest importance
that we shall use one on another way, provided we
agree together. And so we might concentrate on more
difficult problems. So if people can't agree on the
way the sound "w" should be written in Esperanto, I'm
not guilty about that. Suppose many people would think
so ? (I know, I know, "avec des 'si', on mettrait
Paris en bouteille").

And if my governement or my firm tell me that from
tomorrow on, I should learn Esperanto, then I would do
so, because I think it is reasonable and not a huge
sacrifice. Anyway, at the moment I'm learning
Javascript, so why couldn't I learn Esperanto ? It's
more sexy (IMHO) than Unix or C++, anyway.



=====
Philippe Caquant

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


		
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