2011/06/29

Breaking the Language Barrier

Breaking the language barrier, ergo, finding a way to get to know to know each other and have common ground is a fast track to World Peace. Communications technology has shrunk the globe, but there remains one large boundary to all this togetherness: language. So far, businesses can only spread as far and as fast as they can find people speaking a common tongue.

Developing and designing a universal language for all, the complex "Esperanto" was designed with great hope. There are estimated to be between 3,000 and 8,000 different languages spoken around the world; they can be considered as a great source of division among human kind. On top of the tremendous differences in morals, values, religions, politics and customs, people coming from different countries must also communicate and work around those divisions in separate languages.

"A universal language would help ease some of that tension and push the world closer towards peace and unity. LL Zamanoff agreed with this so strongly that he created Esperanto, a language designed to be learned as a second language by everyone in the world."

Esperanto was derived from many different languages with the purpose of making it as easy to learn and use as possible. The vocabulary was taken predominantly from the Romance languages. For example, the word Esperanto means, "one who hopes," coming from the French and Spanish words for hope, esperer and esperar, respectively.

Esperanto was a good idea that did not work. First, because of its complexities, mostly designed to fit everyone with their own personal national traditions.

Also suggested was sign language; every nation has its own sign in which they alone understand. In much the same way that geographical or cultural forces isolate populations and lead to the generation of different and distinct spoken languages, the same forces operate on signed languages and so they tend to maintain their identities through time in roughly the same areas of influence as the local spoken languages. This occurs even though sign languages generally are not related to the spoken languages of the lands in which they arise. In fact, the correlation between signed and spoken languages is much more complex than commonly thought, and due to the geographic influences just mentioned, varies depending on the country more than the spoken language. That alone does not work, as only the people of that nation would understand. It was also suggested that universal sign would never work because of linguistic relation to the spoken languages of other lands.

In the intellectual field of science surely through the computer, teaching different nations one sign language that works for everyone is not only possible it is probable. Consider Bill Gates and the computer that he visualized many years ago. Mr. Gates has a heart of gold desiring to assist people with just about everything. Imagine genius' like him, putting their highly intellectual head together to come up with One Language-One People. "They" a few experts say it cannot be done. IBM et al., says, "Yes we can!" The multinational currently has 100 staff working on an internal project named "n.Fluent " that offers instantaneous translation across a variety of platforms.

Because today's sign languages are used according to the languages and dialects of differing nations, it is a good beginning. However, it does not cure the language barrier. One Universal Sign Language developed internationally, one that everyone and anyone in the world can understand has all the indications of functioning beautifully and fluently when learned. Think of it, visiting another country and using the Universal sign, nothing misunderstood, a closer bond with all people in the Spiritual Matrix, the Network of Souls.

Everyone on this planet is incredibly important to the goals of Mother Earth, especially in unearthing avenues to communicate and to love one another. One Planet - One Language - One People.


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