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Those are very interesting theoretical points, but in practice nobody who actually speak the language complains about them. So, I don't know if they are relevan
by myth2018 8y ago
Those are very interesting theoretical points, but in practice nobody who actually speak the language complains about them. So, I don't know if they are relevant on a practical standpoint.
One may demonstrate that Zamenhof overpromoted his product (maybe out of ignorance, given Zamenhof was an amateur linguist). But the thing works beautifully well anyway and the criticism around there seems not to care about this.
- em-bee 8y agothe rant does contain a number of interesting arguments, when each is looked at by itself. but for most arguments there is no attempt at actually solving the discussed problem, so we are stuck taking the authors word for it. a few are obvious and really should be solved. gender neutrality for example. given todays climate, that is a real problem that other languages like english and german are dealing with now, and esperanto will have to follow suit. but most others are more an issue of the perfect being an enemy of the good. sure, those issues could be fixed, but is it worth the effort? from an idealistic perspective maybe yes, but as long as english dominates, and there are no viable alternatives to esperanto that actually are better, the whole argument is rather moot. either solve the problems and come up with a better solution, or put up with what we have. everyone else is putting up with english, so surely dealing with the issues that esperanto has can't be that hard. for certain, a better language is conceivable, but i'll rather use esperanto despite its few faults than wait for that perfect language that may never materialize. and if it does, then knowing esperanto will make it easier to judge said new language.