[B-Greek] Re: Greek Pronunciation (To Curtis)
Rodrigo Portela Sánchez
rodrigo.portela at interlinguistica.com
Mon Apr 12 05:39:01 EDT 2004
On 12/04/2004 (3:50), Curtis Hinson (curtis at curtishinson.com), writing about the use of modern Greek pronunciation, the one with a historical connection with ancient Greek, as opposed to the Erasmian pronunciation, said:
> guy's notepad. If I wanted an artifice, I would speak Klingon or
> Esperanto.
All languages are "artificial", in the sense they were started by people and are everyday changed by people, by human beings, not just found existing by themselves. Although some people still make that difference between "natural" and "artificial" languages, I prefer other terminologies, maybe also not exact, but better (in my opinion) and nowadays used in Interlinguistics.
Esperanto did start as something "in a guy's notepad", as a project, but today it essentially behaves, linguistically, just like other languages. It has some evolution (although not a great one yet, because of its "youth"), maybe a not so evident one even for most speakers, and a relatively little number of speakers who learned it as their first language.
Rod
P.S.: Sorry, I know this is off-topic, but I wanted to reply to what Curtis said.
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