Re: More constructive approach would do well to us all...
Posted Feb 14, 2009 5:58 AM
I haven't said "dead", I have said "dead end" -- it is a live linguistic project, but it won't ever be a live language. It is not used for communication -- people who speak Esperanto are doing it to speak in Esperanto, not to communicate. Esperanto is a club, not a language; on one hand this club has very many members, on the other hand it is a vulgar club. I would rather become a member of Interlingua or Quenya clubs -- because their members obviously are more intelligent and interesting.
I like languages like Interlingua and Lingua Franca Nova -- these languages are defined by their principles; in theory if you don't know something about them, you can reconstruct it just knowing what their principles are. They are so different from Esperanto and Slovio, which are based solely on their creators' dictatorial rule, and are doomed to remain monuments to their stubbornness and inconsistent decisions.