emmem wrote:
While viewing one of or 'concurrent' (Eurotracer) sites I noticed it was available in Europanto.
thanks for looking at my site. Isn't it a well done, informative alternative? You can even correct typing errors of inserted notes :-)
emmem wrote:
EuroBillTracker wrote:
Did you visit the europanto web site ?
I did (if you are referring to
http://www.contagions.com/europanto/europanto.html). And also some intresting links on the site.
EuroBillTracker wrote:
It says the language is copyrighted...
I didn’t find this anywhere on the Europanto site itself. But it looks as if it’s a trademark. Anyway if you want to put Europanto on EBT and label it as such the best thing to do is ask Diego Marani for his approval first.
When I asked Diego Marani for permission to translate my site into Europanto, he wrote that he had a copyright to "Europanto" which is his invention. He also said that Europanto is not a language, but a provocation. Certainly, it is not a joke in sense :-)
matt.berlin wrote:
Well, according to its inventor .. it's not supposed to be a language of its own like Esperanto ... it's just a way of in the end, creating a language with English as it's base, for Europe.
That therefore implies our languages should merge, he argues they are already and that Europanto is simply speeding up that process. However, I think many Europeans would agree that we don't need a single language ... in fact, we don't want one.
Did you read that in the newspaper? I doubt that Mr Marani said he wanted to create a language with English as it's base, for speeding up the process of merging into one single language. BTW, Europanto doesn't necessarily have English as a base. The 'base' of Europanto depends on the speaker and her language background. If I would talk Europanto, I would use a mix of German, English, Japanese, some Chinese (adding to the confusion and thought provoking :-), maybe tiny bits of French or Italian, but certainly no Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Russian ...
esperantisto wrote:
I would be interested in seeing eurobilltracker in Esperanto
Look at my site, the citing of the URL of which is prohibited by ETB-ettiquete :-)
emmem wrote:
Even if Europanto was widely used once of a sudden, I think it won’t make national languages disappear. They will have their influence on each other, yes, but they won’t replace them.
There is no fear - and no intention - of that!
matt.berlin wrote:
English is used enough already ... after all, the ECB only uses English. There isn't even any German in the building. Over-reliance on English is very dangerous ...
Have you been inside the building? Do you think in a building in Germany - rented by whomsoever - there are no German signs, message boards, instructions on how to behave in case of fire, list of nearby hospitals and doctors, whatever?
Thomas
--
A European tracing Euro notes and coins since January 4th, 2002
).
. It's a funny idea, though, but has everybody forgotten about latin, a language that has really existed and from which most European languages arise 
Wouldn't that also be at least worth mentioning? When will we see EBT in latin? Latin is still (rather) widely known by people around the world. So, why to try to create an artificial language or "language" as there already is a universal european language? 
I could immediatly understand most of the text