Brian_Barker

I always find it curious when people say that Esperanto isn’t interesting, because it’s artificial, when in fact it is now a living language. The funny thing is that most people don’t realize what they really want. If you asked someone in the late 1800s, how they’d like to get around better, they’d say they wanted a faster horse! However, when I bought a car, no one objected to my purchase by saying, “What? That artificial horse?!” Now people in most parts of the world would consider you crazy if you bought a “natural” horse to get around town. People see language as being one of the defining qualities that makes us human. In any case, I’m just as happy to speak an “artificial” language as I am to live in an artificial cave (apartment), fly in an artificial bird (airplane), or look at an artificial window (TV)… so in these cases, “artificial” could also mean “improved.” And after all that, I must say that I still feel pretty human! See also http://bernd.wechner.info/Esperanto/psikologio.html