Ban English in Russian-speaking echoes!

ZXNet echo conference «zx.talking»

From Alexey Antipov To All 6 May 1999

Estu sana, that's it! Don't you think that English is clearly in the wrong place, in the sense that it unofficially recognized as a standard as the world's international language? A Come to think of it - why English? Why, for example, is Dutch worse? Norwegian or Hindi? And all because the Anglo-Saxons for several centuries conquered half the world, and mainly formed the USA, which now, in its own turn, they have long since given up on their homeland, Europe, and now they themselves are striving for global dominance. Accordingly, hence the policy - you guys are learning our language (and specifically THEM, because more and more often advertising booklets for courses are being handed out on the street "American English" as the most correct English today). We'll come here to you soon, otherwise we live too well, we have food in prosperity, we allow ourselves to be fucked beyond measure, but the problem is overpopulation This kind of life threatens us. But with you it’s the other way around - you don’t have enough food, you don’t have children. feed your people every year as a result of the difference in mortality and the birth rate is decreasing by about eight hundred thousand, so you will have to make room. Those who do not know our language will be poking around in the mud, and those who wants to get closer to the new owners, they must know our language perfectly. Personally, although I know the language winners, I am not going to communicate in Russia intogether with the visiting bourgeoisie (for foreign hips and other wandering people outside exceptions will be made due to ignorance of another language, because these people, by and large account, have no nationality and are citizens of the Globe). C "suitcase tourists" and "businessmen" who address me with the phrase "Do do you speak English?" I will treat as ours are treated in the Baltics and in Eastern Europe - I can just send you rudely, but I can show you the way completely in the wrong direction. And I am not in any way a nationalist, but the most pure an internationalist who thinks on a planetary scale - that is, I am for equality and mutual respect of all nations among themselves and against the supremacy of one nation, in in this case, the USA, above the rest. When I come to an English-speaking country, it's another thing is that knowing the language of the country where you are a guest is an elementary tribute to its traditions and is only welcome. In the rest In other cases, no one is obliged to know the language of any one, chosen state. As a single international language, it is best to use a neutral, an artificially created language that was designed to be as simple as possible and could be learned by anyone in as little time as possible for a short time. After all, none of the natural languages, by and large,meets this requirement. To learn at least one foreign language in perfection, requires at least several years of intensive cramming. And English, by the way, is far from the easiest in this regard - it relates to the Germanic group, and the Romanesque group - the same Spanish or Italian - to the order is easier. Artificially created languages are neutral: they do not belong to no one people and promote equality of languages. There have been repeated attempts to create artificial languages around the world, but today it seems that only Esperanto has managed to develop the greatest popularity. According to the latest data, there are about 20 million Esperantists and their number, contrary to the expectations of skeptics, is not decreasing, but is slowly but surely increasing, it publishes annually all over the world a lot of literature, both translated and original (the latter, to Unfortunately, it ceased to concern our country with the collapse of the Union, when the course was taken to the Americanization of Russia, the ubiquitous English appeared everywhere, and regarding Esperanto, our Ministry of Culture decided that we don’t need it at all has long since died; The Russian Esperanto League simply does not have the money to In order to publish Esperanto literature in Russia, everything was different in the USSR). They say, and I can now fully confirm, that to learn Esperantoit takes as many months as it takes years to master a foreign language language to the same extent. I started learning Esperanto from scratch in September and Now I can read texts on it quite easily, looking at it less and less often. dictionary At the same time, Esperanto is a rich and flexible language: in its expressive its capabilities are not inferior to national languages, and it is also euphonious: according to the beauty of its sound is reminiscent of the Italian and Spanish languages (and was also included in the Romanesque group). The World Esperanto Association has consultative relations with the UN and UNESCO, and in the latter it is generally considered the sixth official language (by the way, the abbreviation UNESCO is an abbreviation in Esperanto - Unuig^intaj Nacioj por Edukado, Scienco kaj Kulturo - United Nations for Education, Science and Culture). I really hope that someday Esperanto will become popular in the world. universal recognition, and the English language will take its rightful place - just be the native language in those countries that are English speaking. The fact that he will sooner or later lose his popularity is certainly what happened with the Spanish language after the death of the "invincible armada", and now this is happening with German in Europe - after the death of the Third Reich it is gradually forgotten and is being replaced by English. With the collapse of the American empire (and in world historythere have not yet been eternal empires) this will begin to happen with the English language, another thing is that this could happen in twenty years, or maybe in two hundred. In the meantime, I offer the subject. Sincere via, Alexey Antipov aka Marillion krom mokoj kaj atakoj (C) L. Zamenhof