ESPERANTO.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1927, Page 6

ESPERANTO.

A*- an advocate ol the above mentioned language. I would like To correct a statement publi?hed in a paragraph entitled. "Our Diction Again." which vapjwared in your issue of tie 2-'» rd instant. It is Mated therein that "adequate substitutes for national tonjrues codd never l>e found in Esj#e:anto or other mad? up languages. because . . This implie* that Esperantist? desire t» place Esperanto before the world as a substitution for national tongues. Such an implication is erroneous and indicates a raisundcrstanding of ti« subject. It is indeed regrettable that an educationist of Professor -lames Shelly's calibre has but a merely nebulous idea of the purpose of an international language. For general notation, permit me to state that the Esperantists. who are now found in a hundred countries of the world, do not aim to disturb in any shape or form existing national language*. The Es]>eranto language i= always described as the "international auxiliary language" and its adherents projiagand and 1-elieie in it tl such. ' ' \YM. H. KJW. Vioe-DHegaie of xh<- Universal Esj>erai3to A »»< «H a t ion. Wi'l li] 121< Ti.