NationStates Jolt Archive

The Principality of Athens and Midlands are questioning members of the forum if it is possible create a UN proposal to ban Esperanto as a language in terms of state use only, not in everyday speech.

Is it OK?

Why of course, but you will be no doubt ridiculed and extensively queried over such an idea. Allow me to be the first such individual: :rolleyes:

Why do you feel the need to bring such a trivial issue to the floor, especially one that affects only you? There are better things to discuss and anyway, why do you want to ban it from official use? Do you fear subversion? Plotting? :confused:

I can hardly wait for a response.

May the blessings of our otters be upon you.

Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.

I believe in this:

Learn Not To Speak Esperanto (http://http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/)

and this:

Is Esperanto's vocabulary too large? (http://www.rickharrison.com/language/bloated.html)

However, if you didn't want this idea to be before the UN voting floor, I wouldn't.

I fail to see the need to ban a language that is already approaching natural death. What's the point?

Also, how the heck do you ban a language? Do you arrest its speakers? For what?

I'm sorry, I was bit abrasive in my last message and didn't mean to sound insulting (as I now realise I did). I hope you'll pardon my rudeness.

Leonard Otterby
Ambssador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.

Yet my opposition to the idea remains the same.

Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.

Enn, it does not ban the use in public use, but only for parliament speakers, as I said. Of course, no executions or tourture, but they may be let off with a caution, if it went through.

Err, why, exactly, do you cae what language is spoken by the governments of other countries? If it is voluntarily chosen, what is the problem?

This is RIDICULOUS. Gruenberg's national language is Rukialkotta, a conlang, and we consider this as much a slight on our own linguists as one proponents of Esperanto. We fully hope that were such a proposal to be submitted, it would be laughed off the debate floor.

OOC: Maybe I'm wrong in this, but it sounds like you're trying to propose a resolution for the sake of proposing a resolution. That's never good. If not, then I apologise.

Too trivial. I'm not even sure if it would pass a mod ruling on "not worth the UN's time". Let the nation decide whether they want to use the language in their parliment or not.

Pliiĝ Kun Esperanto! Malsupren Kun lingvo mortigo



But seriously, i agree that this is too trivial.