Re: The universal language - when when when?
- From: Troppo <troppo19@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:17:03 +0000 (UTC)
Sanmare <caspiax61@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:a074b613-6fcc-4fef-a3d2-
4e54a242d327@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
"No one person can construct a Universal Language. It must be made by
a Council representing all countries, and must contain words from
different languages. It will be governed by the simplest rules, and
there will be no exceptions; neither will there be gender, nor extra
and silent letters. Everything indicated will have but one name.(...)
In the schools of each nation the mother tongue will be taught, as
well as the revised Universal Language."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 94)
[snip]
Abdu'l Baha was responding to a question about Esperanto.
Can't find the quote, but I recall somewhere that Baha'u'llah suggests that
God would be pleased if the universal language was Arabic ... However -
" ... In Arabic there are hundreds of names for the camel!"
(Abdu'l-Baha in London, p. 94) - and why not?
"A world language will either be invented or chosen from among the existing
languages and will be taught in the schools of all the federated nations as
an auxiliary to their mother tongue."
(Baha'u'llah, The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, p. xi) and -
"The second stage, in the distant future, would be the eventual adoption of
one single language and common script for all on earth."
(Notations - Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 250)
The point being missed here is that it is a universal AUXILIARY language,
and is INTERIM.
It is not supposed to replace the language learned as a child.
It is "Cycle of Fulfillment" stuff. Maybe we shouldn't start trying to find
the answer until we know what the question is.
The world already has some experience in auxiliary languages, both natural
and man-made. Natural languages are usually capable of all sorts of nuances
and variations, to cope with all the fine variations of sentiment and
expression that human emotions require.
At least one natural language has gone through the whole process:
Phoenician - natural language >> trading language >> Sanscrit - language
capable of expressing complex principles or revealed word.
There are also many conversions of natural languages to auxiliary
languages, usually termed 'pidgin' or the equivalent Esy to pick up and get
by with, diffficult to express complex concepts in - unless of course they
morph into something else.
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