{"id":88,"date":"2009-09-17T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-09-17T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T18:41:52","slug":"read-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/read-or-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Read or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My next-door neighbor in the dorm is a huge fan of all sorts of anime, a term for a lengthy animated series from Japan. I don&#8217;t usually partake, but occasionally I catch a glimpse of what he&#8217;s watching. Today I became acquainted with his latest pastime, a series known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Read_or_Die\">Read or Die<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under normal circumstances, this wouldn&#8217;t be too pertinent for a blog entry. However, I find one thing especially curious about this particular anime. One of the antagonists seeks to control the thoughts of the world by managing all the books in it&#8230;And his weapon of choice to do so is by spreading a worldwide language!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, as an Esperantist, the choice of portraying a global language in a villainous light might bother you. If so, I ask that you consider a fundamental difference between Zamenhof&#8217;s linguistic brainchild and that of the Read or Die antagonist. Do not forget that Zamenhof intended for Esperanto to be a global <em>SECOND<\/em> language, rather than a first. I imagine that Zamenhof knew of the potential issues that would come from everyone speaking one and only one language. By presenting Esperanto as a second language, we preserve other languages, and the unique thought processes that accompany them. I doubt that Read or Die is intended as a critique of Esperanto, but it makes for some interesting discussion about the role of language in a thinking society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My next-door neighbor in the dorm is a huge fan of all sorts of anime, a term for a lengthy animated series from Japan. I don&#8217;t usually partake, but occasionally I catch a glimpse of what he&#8217;s watching. Today I became acquainted with his latest pastime, a series known as Read or Die. Under normal&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/read-or-die\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}