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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Making Esperanto universal..
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 21:28:23 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 21:28:23 1985
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Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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>   It is used a lot in Europe and is gaining strength in the far east
>	and the third world. (200,000 Chinese are taking courses now!)
>..
>   The time you spend learning it will also help you learn other
>	romance languages.

>-Neal McBurnett

    Esperanto is indeed a most transparent language -- with little more than
    a few fairly natural rules requiring less than 10 minutes' inspection,
    and a basic knowledge of the international Graeco-Latin root stock, one
    can automatically read Esperanto with remarkably few excursions to the
    dictionary.

    If all those Chinese speakers are learning esperanto, it would make
    sense to use esperanto as a medium for encouraging east-west 
    understanding. 

    Is there anyone `in charge' of the language? If so, would it be possible
    to encourage them to add a major stock of Chinese and Japanese stems as
    well, so that it would become an enterprise which drew together all the
    fertility of this planet?

    The Graeco-Latin core of Esperanto is a total win, considering how
    universally it is used in all scientific, artistic, and business
    circles. Adding noneuropean terms would seem to seal Esperanto's promise
    to become the international language this planet needs so badly.

    Several words I'd especially like to see (WG=Wade Giles, P=Pinyin,
    A=ancient Chinese, J=Japanese):

    la reno	= Humanism (human) (WG jen, P ren, A zen)
    la dao	= the Tao  (WG tao, P dao, A dau, J do)
    la deo	= Virtue (WG te, P de)
     or la tako = " (A tak, J toko)
    la tjeno    = Cosmos (heavens) (WG t'ien, P tien, A tien, J ten)
    lau^a	= venerable, ancient (WG,P lao, A lau)  
    la kau^azo	= frog (J kawazu <= ??
    		       (WG ko, P go, A kap;
    		  	WGP hia, A gha, J ka;
    		  	WGP wa,  A ua, J a;
			WG  kuo, Pguo, A kwak))


    Just a suggestion..

 "Others are so bright and intelligent"

-michael