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Esperanto is a lovely idea but any language needs an active support to stay current. If the language does not take inputs from culture, science and philosophy,
by eveningcoffee 10y ago
Esperanto is a lovely idea but any language needs an active support to stay current. If the language does not take inputs from culture, science and philosophy, it starts to degrade.
- renox 10y ago? Nothing prevent adding new words to Esperanto, the most difficult part is reaching a consensus but that's also the case for 'normal' languages: there are many new French word introduced by the academie Française which aren't much used (courriel instead of mail, pourriel instead of spam, etc)..
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIt is not about language capability to accept new words but about language users motivation to do so.