Prix Nobel pour l'espéranto ?

greg   Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:44 pm GMT
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« L'espéranto recommandé par des parlementaires pour le Prix Nobel.

Des parlementaires suisses recommandent l'espéranto pour le Prix Nobel de la paix 2008, à l'occasion des 100 ans de l'Association universelle d'espéranto (AUE). Ils tiennent à souligner l'importance démocratique de cette langue qui n'appartient à aucune nation.

Gisèle Ory, conseillère aux Etats (PS/NE) et Francine John-Calame, conseillère nationale (Verts/NE) ont envoyé un courrier à Oslo il y a quelques jours. L'espéranto est enseigné dans des camps de réfugiés en Afghanistan sous le nom de langue de la paix. Egalement utilisée dans des camps de jeunes Japonais et Coréens, elle permet des contacts d'égal à égal.

L'espéranto poursuit les mêmes buts que l'Unesco : soutenir la circulation libre de l'information en général et le développement de l'éducation, des sciences et de la culture. En 1954 et 1985, l'organisation mondiale a voté deux résolutions pour attirer l'attention sur le travail de l'Association universelle d'espéranto. »




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« L'espéranto candidat au Nobel de la paix.

Deux parlementaires neuchâteloises soutiennent la candidature de l’Association universelle d’espéranto (AUE) au Prix Nobel de la paix 2008.

Gisèle Ory, conseillère aux Etats, et Francine John, conseillère nationale, ont présenté cette candidature aujourd’hui à La Chaux-de-Fonds.

La métropole horlogère abrite un centre important espérantiste. L’espéranto est une langue fabriquée à partir de plusieurs autres langues. C’est une langue apolitique qui favorise les contacts pacifiques.

Un millier de personnes en Suisse pratiquent l’espéranto et 5 millions dans le monde.

L’Association universelle d’espéranto (AUE) pourrait recevoir un million de dollars si elle obtient le Nobel de la paix. »
Guest   Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:37 am GMT
Maybe Esperanto has a bright future in Afghanistan? :)
DJ   Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:34 am GMT
That's terrible.
greg   Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:15 pm GMT
À la différence de tel ou tel concert, l'espéranto est chose pérenne.
olaszinho   Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:21 pm GMT
Et comme toutes les choses pérennes et immuables, l'espéranto est tellement ennuyeux.....
K. T.   Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:50 pm GMT
Neither concerts nor Esperanto will bring about world peace. Scientists will not bring world peace. People simply have darkness in their hearts.
They hate one another. People are jealous (just look at the comments here), they hate other people for their language, country, race, etc. They envy others for their talents. How many times have we read such comments?

Esperanto is interesting, but I don't find it beautiful. Perhaps it is because the native accents of its speakers are so noticeable.
K. T.   Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:01 pm GMT
I get the impression that people like Esperanto because its speakers have a level playing field. There are no real native speakers (unless some parents are teaching this language as a first language to their children), and no national identity associated with it.

I find it a little odd when some people choose this as their first "other" language. Of course, it must be fun to learn it and talk to other people who have no other common language.

Since I can't use it in a practical way in my daily life, I couldn't choose it for a language, though.
Guest   Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:14 pm GMT
Esperanto may be a noble enterprise, but it has achieved nothing, has no future and does not deserve Nobel.
OïL   Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:17 pm GMT
"Esperanto is a waste of time IMO. It has done no more for world peace than those lame Live Earth concerts last year did for global warming."

— Totalement d'accord!

Il existe en Belgique deux associations espérantistes... divisées par la langue. L'une est néerlandophone, l'autre francophone!
Guest   Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:20 pm GMT
If the terrorists Arafat and Kissinger deserved the Nobel Price, why not the Esperanto Language?
Guest   Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:47 pm GMT
It's mainly the Nobel Peace prize that's meaningless. Many of the Nobel Prizes are still meaningful.
K. T.   Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:41 am GMT
"It's mainly the Nobel Peace prize that's meaningless. Many of the Nobel Prizes are still meaningful."

Great point!
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I wouldn't call Kissinger a terrorist. Now Al Gore (during that period when he had that beard...no, just kidding. I don't think he grew it to go undercover in Afghanistan.)
K. T.   Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:12 am GMT
I was looking at another site and I read a claim that Esperanto can be learned very quickly (for people with a European language background)...

It could be fun.

Of course, I sometimes wonder what the "original language" sounded like.
Yop   Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:16 pm GMT
<I read a claim that Esperanto can be learned very quickly (for people with a European language background)... >

Exactly, that's why I'm planning to give it a go. There is a free audio course that seems not bad here: http://en.lernu.net/kursoj/mek/mp3.php (you need to register to see the links to the mp3 files).
Stefano   Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:54 pm GMT
To know a little bit more about Esperanto the International Language (before to criticize it without knowing the facts), may I suggest you to watch this video:

"The language challenge -- facing up to reality"
by Professor Claude Piron
http://www.dotsub.com/films/thelanguage

or, if you understand french, these series of clips by Pr. Claude Piron:
"Les langues: un défi"
http://www.claude-piron.ch/medias.html

Everything exists in Esperanto, just like in other languages. Music groups from different countries sing in Esperanto:

reggae, sega, salegy from the Indian Ocean,
by the Esperanto-"YouTube":
http://farbskatol.net/dotclear/index.php?2007/06/21/96-negro-pou-la-vi
or here:
http://www.studio-pro.ch/esperanto-muziko.html

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