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The Language Challenge - Facing Up to Reality
Thread poster: Paul Dixon
Paul Dixon
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Brazil
Local time: 19:50
Portuguese to English
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Sep 21, 2009

Found this on You Tube - an interesting subject for discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU&feature=related
 
Richard Bartholomew
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Germany
Local time: 00:50
German to English
Why proselytize? Sep 25, 2009

I'm not sure what feeds the urge to proselytize. Those folks who find Esperanto to be an effective lingua franca are already employing it as such. Others find different ways to communicate. Chacun à son goût.

Even supposing that Esperanto were to come into widespread use, what reason is there to believe that it would escape the kind of mutation that beset Latin and is currently besetting English?



[Edited at 2009-09-25 08:19 GMT]
 


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