Ierse esperantisten tonen hoe het moet

Pelgrim · 22 februari 2007, 11:04

De ierse Esperanto-asociatie

En let vooral op het kaartje

Een louter formele zwarte lijn is al wat verwijst naar het imperialisme van GB...

En van de hand van James Connolly, revolutionaire Ierse republikein van oa de paasopstand en ook een esperantist:

In Workers’ Republic of December 2nd 1899, Connolly wrote:

“I believe the establishment of a universal language to facilitate communication between the peoples is highly to be desired. But I incline also to the belief that this desirable result would be attained sooner as the result of a free agreement which would accept one language to be taught in all primary schools, in addition to the national language, than by the attempt to crush out the existing national vehicles of expression.”

In The Harp (April 1908) he wrote:

“I do believe in the necessity, and indeed in the inevitability of an universal language; but I do not believe it will be brought about, or even hastened, by smaller races or nations consenting to the extinction of their language. Such a course of action, or rather of slavish inaction, would not hasten the day of a universal language, but would rather lead to the intensification of the struggle for mastery between the languages of the greater powers.

On the other hand, a large number of small communities, speaking different tongues, are more likely to agree upon a common language as a common means of communication than a small number of great empires, each jealous of its own power and seeking its own supremacy.”

De Esperantovlag is niet voor niets groen...

Pelgrim · 22 februari 2007, 11:36

Esperanto fits Connolly’s idea that nationalism and internationalism should go together. By putting all language communities, large and small, on the same level, it expresses the equality of nations and the unity of humankind.

22 februari 2007, 11:04	#1
Pelgrim Secretaris-Generaal VN Geregistreerd: 30 april 2002 Locatie: Bankrijk Berichten: 49.945	Ierse esperantisten tonen hoe het moet De ierse Esperanto-asociatie En let vooral op het kaartje Een louter formele zwarte lijn is al wat verwijst naar het imperialisme van GB... En van de hand van James Connolly, revolutionaire Ierse republikein van oa de paasopstand en ook een esperantist: In Workers’ Republic of December 2nd 1899, Connolly wrote: “I believe the establishment of a universal language to facilitate communication between the peoples is highly to be desired. But I incline also to the belief that this desirable result would be attained sooner as the result of a free agreement which would accept one language to be taught in all primary schools, in addition to the national language, than by the attempt to crush out the existing national vehicles of expression.” In The Harp (April 1908) he wrote: “I do believe in the necessity, and indeed in the inevitability of an universal language; but I do not believe it will be brought about, or even hastened, by smaller races or nations consenting to the extinction of their language. Such a course of action, or rather of slavish inaction, would not hasten the day of a universal language, but would rather lead to the intensification of the struggle for mastery between the languages of the greater powers. On the other hand, a large number of small communities, speaking different tongues, are more likely to agree upon a common language as a common means of communication than a small number of great empires, each jealous of its own power and seeking its own supremacy.” De Esperantovlag is niet voor niets groen... Laatst gewijzigd door Pelgrim : 22 februari 2007 om 11:05.

22 februari 2007, 11:36	#2
Pelgrim Secretaris-Generaal VN Geregistreerd: 30 april 2002 Locatie: Bankrijk Berichten: 49.945	Esperanto fits Connolly’s idea that nationalism and internationalism should go together. By putting all language communities, large and small, on the same level, it expresses the equality of nations and the unity of humankind.