Hey, a new Substack! I'm glad to have you back in my inbox. And Esperanto is such an interesting endeavor! We need that feeling of unity more than ever.
Esperanto is a topic full of thoughts, opinions, dreams, and other ideas, so there's a lot to talk about.
Ever since it was invented, it has been criticized for almost anything people could imagine, and so has other "conlangs" – constructed languages – and often from a basic idea that languages must develop naturally, and be some people's native languages, to be useful.
Well, the thoughts are fair, and the considerations about what to do, and whether to use such a language just as fair. I just think that, as you say – we need this! The world is falling apart, and people across the globe are pointing out each other as being somehow wrong, and, hence, the enemy.
With a common second language, like Esperanto, we can perhaps finally talk about something else. About the world, for instance. therefore the name of this Substack, meaning the Esperanto World, and not just the world that consists of Esperanto topics, but, indeed, also the world as it is, made possible to talk about through that common "third" – a classical conversational theory about you, me, in the conversation, actually talking to each other in the room between us that we share. It is not purely you, not purely me, it is that common third fictitious space we share for the conversation.
If we want to grow the idea of neither you nor me owning that space, it should better be created on a neutral ground. Esperanto is one possibility to do that, and the most popular – which also makes it the easiest to go with. There are more books, more people, more media about it. We can all get started and get moving with it, without too much trouble.
Hey, a new Substack! I'm glad to have you back in my inbox. And Esperanto is such an interesting endeavor! We need that feeling of unity more than ever.
Thanks! :) I'm happy to see you here.
Esperanto is a topic full of thoughts, opinions, dreams, and other ideas, so there's a lot to talk about.
Ever since it was invented, it has been criticized for almost anything people could imagine, and so has other "conlangs" – constructed languages – and often from a basic idea that languages must develop naturally, and be some people's native languages, to be useful.
Well, the thoughts are fair, and the considerations about what to do, and whether to use such a language just as fair. I just think that, as you say – we need this! The world is falling apart, and people across the globe are pointing out each other as being somehow wrong, and, hence, the enemy.
With a common second language, like Esperanto, we can perhaps finally talk about something else. About the world, for instance. therefore the name of this Substack, meaning the Esperanto World, and not just the world that consists of Esperanto topics, but, indeed, also the world as it is, made possible to talk about through that common "third" – a classical conversational theory about you, me, in the conversation, actually talking to each other in the room between us that we share. It is not purely you, not purely me, it is that common third fictitious space we share for the conversation.
If we want to grow the idea of neither you nor me owning that space, it should better be created on a neutral ground. Esperanto is one possibility to do that, and the most popular – which also makes it the easiest to go with. There are more books, more people, more media about it. We can all get started and get moving with it, without too much trouble.