PRONUNCIATION OF FOREIGN NAMES
Sir-yYour correspondent Elwynne Thomas quotes the book Loom of Language as an argument against Esperanto, and then mentions Interglossa; and wonders why "Nothing more was heard of it.’ I can tell her. For the same. reason that nothing more was heard of over 120 other proposed international languages-it just didn’t measure up to international standards in practice. Esperanto is not perfect? So what? Neither am I. When we have a perfect man or perfect woman, we shall prob-
ably have a perfect international lan-guage-but in the meantime, why not adopt the language that has already been accepted by representative groups of people in every country of the world? We cannot wait for ever for perfection and, in fact, what is considered perfection in one country is totally unacceptable to another. In the meantime, Esperanto is fulfilling a vital and urgent need and, if it is adopted officially as the international auxiliary language, then perhaps we might find that we don’t need perfection after all. ~ For your corréspondent’s benefit, I mention that an excellent Esperantist is to be found in her own suburb, East--bourne, who could give her far more information about Esperanto than is to be found in a book written several years ago. After all, although the author is entitled to his opinion, he might just
be wrong.
NELSON
HILL
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 5
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226PRONUNCIATION OF FOREIGN NAMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 5
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