Thursday, July 17, 2008

Why?

Why does anyone learn Esperanto? I've often wondered that myself.
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6 comments:

Amy said...

I've read that it can be useful in programing computers to translate idioms and such. Rather than translate directly from English to Spanish or Russian to French, many computer translation packages use some sort of intermediary language, like Esperanto, to help translate the real meaning of a phrase rather than a meaningless word-for-word recounting.

I don't really think it has much use for the rest of us, though.

9:07 PM
Ruth said...

In my experience, computer translations are very bad. Very. And now I think I understand one of the reasons why.

10:49 AM
Unknown said...

Fascinating that they wrote a whole article about the language without ever using a single word in the language, except for the name of the language itself.

12:33 PM
marauder34 said...

I learned it mostly for the novelty, but there are a number of other reasons to learn Esperanto. One of them is that it makes it much, much easier to learn a more practical language. If you study Esperanto for one year, and German for two, you'll be farther along with your German than someone else who studied it for three years without looking at Esperanto first.

Here is a serious list:
http://marauder34.livejournal.com/121773.html

Here is a silly one:
http://marauder34.livejournal.com/127684.html

3:15 PM
Ruth said...

Dave, I have no memory of writing this post! I will look at your links. I think you're the only person I've ever known who has actually studied Esperanto.

3:21 PM
marauder34 said...

I strive to be unique and memorable.

11:39 PM

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