Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!amd!dual!ptsfa!rob From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: More on "Problems with Esperanto". Message-ID: <471@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 10:58:24 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfa.471 Posted: Fri Feb 8 10:58:24 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:26:15 EST References: <2739@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 24 > .... I think that with > enough use, Esperanto may well create it's own dialects, but since that > happens in all languages, and (for the most part) has not ruined them, > it will not ruin Esperanto. > > One other point brought up is that, when it becomes more popular, > people will form subgroups and not be able to understand other subgroups > or even the main group. However, the fact that Esperanto is an Inter- > national language means that everyone will be able to understand each > other, for the most part(see point one). > I don't think anyone is saying it will "ruin" Esperanto, just that it will ruin its universality. Just because it was developed with the intent of being an internation language, that will not stop the universal effects of time and space in creating separate dialects. Mere intent does not confer a quality to something! *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** -- Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell, San Francisco, California {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!rob