[Membroj] La angla kiel surogato por Esperanto

[Jim Ryan]

An interesting mention of Esperanto from a non-Esperanto book I'm reading:

 From Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish by Dovid Katz:  
"Thanks the the Internet, the ubiquity of American popular culture and 
international communications, English is coming to fulfill the role that 
the grand linguistic dreamer (and Yiddish scholar) Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof 
imagined for his own created language, Esperanto.  The Bialystok native 
believed it would be an international means of communication that nobody 
would feel is particularly tied to any one ethnicity and that could 
therefore unite humanity.  But English has now attained a pan-ethnic 
status and is becoming the Esperanto that Esperanto itself could never 
become.  Internet lingo and the modern mass media "Esperantize," 
avoiding narrow particularities, whether ethnic, political or racial.  
That is good insofar as it brings communication and understanding  to 
more and more people and places, and so long as it does not displace the 
rich local, culture-specific vernaculars of the diffuse corners of the 
Earth."




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