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All languages have a culture associated to them. It's hard to dissociate the culture from the language. Even English, which is used in different cultures, has l
by athenot 11y ago
All languages have a culture associated to them. It's hard to dissociate the culture from the language. Even English, which is used in different cultures, has local optimizations when it is used daily.
Latin is bound to an ancient culture (and a religious one).
Even Klingon and Quenya are bound to the universes and cultures created by their authors & fan bases.
But I don't see any culture associated with Esperanto. I'm wondering if things might be different if its proponents started associating with a niche culture (be it business) and then expand out to encompass things from everyday life. I don't know what the answer is…
- panglott 11y agoThere is a very distinctive culture to Esperanto: people who continue to hope for positive social transformation and international and intercultural harmony. Esperantist and conlanger William Annis (on the Conlangery podcast) said something to the effect that, if you go to a Esperanto congress, you should start with the default assumption that everyone you meet is a gay vegetarian. [1] I cannot speak to the truth of this myself ;) [1] http://conlangery.com/2011/12/05/94/ http://conlangery.com/2011/12/05/94/
- neverartful 11y agoThat sounds more like a philosophy than a culture.
- schoen 11y agoThere is even an Esperantist movement that explicitly argues that it's a culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumism