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>> 21ST FEBRUARY – INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
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>> On the 21st February 1952, at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh,
>> police shot dead a number of demonstrating students. Those students
>> were demonstrating for people to acknowledge the existence of their
>> mother tongue – Bengali (bangla / bn / ???). There was a move to
>> remove that language from the university in favour of a
>> “greater” language, spoken by the strong people of the time.
>>
>> This is something which has been repeated – in various forms –
>> continually throughout the entire world and throughout history, not
>> only in Bengal but also, for example, in the Netherlands, whose
>> parliament approved a plan on 29th September 2015 to gradually
>> remove Dutch from elementary schools in favour of English.
Mi ne kredas ke tiaj duonmensogoj helpos nin. Ne temas pri plano forlasi
la nederlandan entute, sed pri legxa permeso instrui per la Angla
(oficiale ankaw la Franca/Germana) en bazlernejoj, dum 15 aw 20 (mi ne
memoras ekzakte) elcent de la instruhoroj.
Iuj mezlernejoj jam instruas duonon de la fakoj en la Angla
>> On the other
>> hand, as all linguists tell us (we quote one of them, Ken Hale):
>> “When a language dies, we lose a great intellectual richness, as
>> if a bomb had dropped on the Louvre Museum.”
Multe da homoj fajfas pri kion diras iuj "ekspertoj" (se ili entute
scias kio estas "linguist"..). Pli utilus klarigi ke iuj aferoj simple
ne direblas per (cx)iuj lingvoj
>> Perhaps someone is still asking: “Precisely why Esperanto?” The
>> reason is simple. Behind Esperanto there are no states, economic
>> systems, imperialistic struggles, nor peoples whose interest would
>> be the elimination of other peoples, their languages, or the
>> acquisition of their markets. Behind Esperanto there are only people
>> of good will, who strive for justice for all cultures and all
>> languages, in peace between the peoples.
Tiu argumento validas same por Lojban, Ido, Interlingua kaj aliaj
Respondo kiu respektas ke la legantoj ne estas infanoj estus : because
nobody came up with something better and because Esperanto is a hundred
times as widely spoken as its serious competitors
gxis, Ronaldo N
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