Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Problems with Esperanto Message-ID: <319@scc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 14:46:52 EST Article-I.D.: scc.319 Posted: Tue Jan 15 14:46:52 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 03:30:05 EST References: <37@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 21 > > Another major problem with Esperanto as a world wide language, is that > MOST people don't go to the trouble of learning something unless they need > it for some reason. The reason that the languages that have come closest to > being universal have done so is that they were important for some reason. > This is so true. Witness that Ireland tried to reintroduce Gallic as a national language and since there was now reason for anyone to learn it the attempt fizzled out. On the other hand, Hebrew came back to life with the formation of the modern state of Israel because it was the only way all the diverse people that settled there could communicate. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/