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"Zoran Obradovic" <zocky@kud.fp-si> wrote:

>> > : If an Italian who also speaks French and Spanish meets with a Dane
>who
>> > : also speaks English and German, there is still no common language.
>This
>> > : is why I advocate an agreement that all educated persons learn an
>> > : interantional auxiliary language, such as Esperanto.
>> 
>> What if everyone started to learn English...   Wouldn't that be a better
>> option than Esperanto?  I guess that it is maybe me being a Belgian
>> citizen that already has to learn 4 languages to come around in my own
>> country that I can take these things so easily...  What if I spoke
>> esperanto now...  WOuld you understand me?  I guess not, so why not
>> stick to the 'good old english'...  Then everybody understands
>> oneantoher...
>> 

>Look, I don't like the way that Esperantists usually try
>to "save the world", but you totally missed the point.

>I don't mind that much that english & american people are
>privileged if everybody else has to learn their language,
>but it took me about 4 years to learn english good enough
>to communicate about most subjects and about 2 weeks
>to do the same in Esperanto.

>Esperanto is not perfect. It's just handy and it's much
>easier to learn than any natural language.

>Zoran Obradovic' 

If the Dane had taken a course in Interlingua he would understand a
lot of what the others said. 

Ego ha parlate con personas de lingua espaniol o italiano in
Interlingua e illes me comprende - forsan melio que ego les comprende.


Il pote de tempore a tempore esser profitabile haber duo platteformas
sur le quales on pote star in su communication international. 

I have a feeling that the dominating role that English is playing
to-day has a certain disadvantage for people living in the smaller
countries. I noticed a very funny example of this some years ago. 

In our local daily in Uppsala there was an article about a doctoral
thesis - I think it was - about the 17th-century writer Vuk Krizhanich
(I'm quoting these facts from memory and it being what it never was,
there may be some mistakes). Anyway, this Krizhanich wrote a book
entitled _Politika_ in a language that one has to call a kind of
Slavic Interlanguage with its roots in Church Slavonian and elements
from Russian, Polish and his native Croatian.

The thesis on his book was written by to U.S. scholars from an East
Coast university. I thaught this article was very interesting and
talked about it to a person from the Department of Slavic Languages at
Uppsla University, and then I was told that a person there was working
on a doctoral thesis about this same Krizhanich. 

Now, my local paper new that this was done in the US but not that
similar researche was being done in its very home-town.

This is of course anectodical evidence, but it is only one of the
cases where it seams that there are lines from the centre in the US to
the different parts of the world but not so many lines between the
individual points in the periphery. 

A way to act against this could be to use Esperanto or IALA:s
Interlingua. 

Kjell