How Did The International Language

The idea common to all language has always attracted the attention of prominent minds of mankind. Simultaneously with a whole class of people whose activities took place at the junction of nations and borders - the merchants, traders, businessmen, diplomats, scholars - always felt the urgent need for a universal means of communication. Moreover people curious by nature, wishing to expand their horizons through correspondence, communication, travel, too, wanted to get the tool facilitating contacts with people from other countries. In short, the need for a universal means of communication has always existed. Particularly relevant, it has become with the advent of the Internet in our lives blurring the and the distance, but alas, not giving the universal language of understanding.

And as a result of an endless struggle among the nations conquered others. In this case, the losers were forced to learn the language of winners and never vice versa. Language dominant (militarily, economically, numerically or cultural sense) automatically became the nation's dominant language - and, willy-nilly, means of communication between other nations, it is becoming international. So was Latin during the Roman Empire, the French in the 19 st century for the elite among the Russian peoples of the ussr, English in the second half of the 20 th century, Chinese Paradox use their language among other nations is this nation great benefits - continued imposition of the economy, politics and culture go a lot smoother. In this case, the sum is ridiculously paradoxical situation - the losers and laggards spend their own time and money on learning the language of winners! Why? Yes, because the dominant nation and is the largest labor market and sales. And you can not sell themselves successfully without knowing the language.

How to solve the problem? The easiest way used in communication between the peoples of a draw, that is a neutral language. For this role would fit quite Latin, but its exorbitant complexity and lack of most modern concepts do not allow it to do. It follows second postulate - the international language must be not only neutral but also simple to learn, to any person of average intelligence can easily learn them by spending a minimum of time and money. And once such a language is not in nature - it has to be invented. As stated in the beginning, the idea of creating a common language for all attracted the minds of great thinkers. In this field were noted, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, John Amos Comenius, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz. However, their designs, more like algebraic formulas are not suitable for public communication. Projects have been quite a lot (among them, came closest to the status of the draft language Volapuk -1879) but they all left the project, because that is not meet the requirements of development and simplicity of expression. The only project of universal language which has become a real full-fledged language, was a project of Dr. Esperanto.

Comments

[Patbillchapman]

Yes, Esperanto is a brilliant commonsense sollution to the language problem. It deserves to be more widely used.