WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, CNT-AIT, #184 - What is Esperanto used for? A concrete example (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Esperanto is an international language, which was "invented" more than
120 years ago. Requiring a short learning period2 to be usable,
Esperanto is thus presented as an effective and economically fair
solution to the problem of communication between people with different
mother tongues. It also aims to break down linguistic barriers, promote
communication across physical or cultural borders and thus promote peace
by allowing dialogue. ---- Often when we say that we are learning
Esperanto, we are met with the response "but what's the point of that?"
And then anyway, there is English!» Certainly, today English is
everywhere... But the global diffusion of English is a sign of the
cultural imperialism of capitalism, and particularly of Anglo-Saxon
capitalism. It is not a "neutral" language in cultural or political terms.

Esperanto therefore allows us to dialogue with people who share with us
the hope of a fraternal world, rid of capitalism and its dominant
ideology, which crushes all diversity (started with linguistic
diversity) while claiming to "protect the identities", but which is in
fact only the promotion of the narrowest nationalism.

I would like to give a concrete illustration of the concrete usefulness
of this universal language utopia that is Esperanto. On October 8, we
drafted a text "Stop the barbarity" condemning the terrorist attacks of
Hamas and also the blind vengeance of the Israeli army which was going
to fall on the civilians of Gaza. This text was translated into
Esperanto by an Internet user who posted it on his site
(http://neniammilitointerni.over-blog.com), thus giving it international
distribution. Based on this Esperanto version, an Esperanto anarchist
from Great Britain translated it into English, the companions of the
Russian section of the AIT translated it into Russian, other people
translated it into German and it was even translated into Chinese!!!

The text in Esperanto was the editorial of our information sheet in this
language "informa bulteno". We sent it to Esperantists around the world,
including those at the "Zamenhof" Institute in Togo, Africa, who
responded to circulate it among their students.

This is what Esperanto is for: to facilitate exchanges, communication,
for Peace and Humanity.

So if you too want to start learning Esperanto, there is probably an
Esperanto group far from you. There are also many websites to help you
learn it, which is very easy.

If you would like to receive our Esperantist newsletter, and even why
not contribute to it, whether you are an experienced Esperantist or a
simple beginner, do not hesitate to contact us by writing to the
newspaper or by sending us an email at contact at cnt-ait. info/

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