{"id":46,"date":"2009-05-12T00:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-05-12T00:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:35:46","slug":"who-says-its-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/who-says-its-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Who says it’s forgotten?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I encountered this news story<\/a> a little while ago during my periodic voyages across the Internet. The piece is a bit outdated (it’s from 2005), but it does raise a valid question: what happened to Esperanto? There are still quite a few speakers worldwide, but I have a feeling that Esperanto does not enter the public consciousness as often as it should.<\/p>\n

Another, more recent news story<\/a>, suggests that Esperanto could soon make a comeback. Apparently there is an effort in the UK to incorporate Esperanto into grade school curricula. I think it’s a fine idea, especially since Esperanto borrows many of its roots from other languages. As a consequence, a lot of the words you learn in Esperanto help with other languages. For example, take Spanish. The preposition “with” in Spanish is “con;” in Esperanto, it’s “kun<\/strong>.” The Spanish verb “to run” is “correr;” Esperanto, “kuri<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

But, setting the case for teaching Esperanto aside for a moment, we might want to think about why Esperanto is fading from the public eye. I would imagine that some people are more familiar with Elvish, the invented language from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” saga, than they are with Esperanto! Maybe it isn’t in enough popular culture. Or perhaps, as civitanoj usonaj<\/strong>, we don’t encounter enough foreign languages in our daily life to start thinking about how useful communication can be.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts? How could Esperanto be promoted? Why is it not well-enough known?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I encountered this news story a little while ago during my periodic voyages across the Internet. The piece is a bit outdated (it’s from 2005), but it does raise a valid question: what happened to Esperanto? There are still quite a few speakers worldwide, but I have a feeling that Esperanto does not enter the…<\/p>\n

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