|
 |
Why do people hate Esperanto? | ||
Tags: Cultural Identity | Esperanto | ||
 Language Learning Forum : Esperanto |  | |
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5133 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 72 01 May 2010 at 2:10am | IP Logged | ||
|
I cannot comprehend.
Can someone explain? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5474 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 2 of 72 01 May 2010 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
|
Some people think languages that do not have cultural background are not worth studying.
Also, some people resent the fact that Esperanto claims to be neutral in its origins. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5133 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 72 01 May 2010 at 3:01am | IP Logged | ||
I understand that but I would like to know WHY they think that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5474 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 4 of 72 01 May 2010 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||
|
Item 1: If I'm learning Esperanto, I'm not (directly) opening myself up to new cultural
experiences. There isn't a body of literature, mythology, cuisine, or anything. Esperanto is a tool that allows for communication, but does not hold any significance as a language. As someone wrote earlier, hammers are useful tools but it's hard to endear oneself to one. Item 2: Esperanto is a kitbash of Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages. Esperanto's claims of neutrality have some resonance in a European context but not so much elsewhere. For example, Japanese or Punjabi speakers can't find much in Esperanto that relates to their languages. Thus, when non-Europeans look at Esperanto, they see a European language. Edited by Paskwc on 01 May 2010 at 3:30am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5320 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 5 of 72 01 May 2010 at 4:00am | IP Logged | ||
|
I like Esperanto. I would like it so much better if it wasn't so Romance-centric, and if it didn't have politics often bundled in.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 5876 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 72 01 May 2010 at 4:31am | IP Logged | ||
|
I'm a bit puzzled - are there a lot of people going around hating Esperanto? Could you
perhaps point me towards some of them? Edited by mrhenrik on 01 May 2010 at 4:33am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5133 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 7 of 72 01 May 2010 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
|
Google "Esperanto not" and you get a TON of Esperanto hate results.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mafouz Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5122 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: German, Japanese, French | Message 8 of 72 01 May 2010 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
|
Uhhh, I did the googling and I don't find that many anti-esperantist sites. The points made by Justin Rye and the arguments in the wikipedia make some sense, and it is not the first time I hear them.
1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
