 What's up guys Evil D here and today I want to speak to you about something that's fascinated me recently But before I jump into that I just want to say something so a lot of time I speak about language evolution and how it affects Esperanto on this channel and a lot of people get their panties in a twist They're like no language evolution can't happen with Esperanto if that happens will break up the dialects And then suddenly we won't understand each other and then then it'll completely like self-explode and I'm like whoa Dude take a step back here. Let's look at some history and how dialects actually form So there's two main ways dialects form one social reasons to language isolation And that's the main one okay, so you look at the history for instance Australian English British English and American English And the reason our English is are all slightly different like we all speak them slightly differently is one because we've all been affected by other languages And to the fact that would been isolated for a period of like at least 200 years almost 300 years in some cases Where there was no mass media. There was no Internet there was no TV to set a standardization for the languages Now if you look at it nowadays because I'm an actor as an Australian actor, we all have to learn one accent Okay, it's called as standard Australian accent Okay, and then the Americans have got standard American you go for your television unless you're trying to emphasize a dialect But they all learned one accent and they use that on TV and we all use one accent We use it on TV and I'm sure the Brits do the exact same thing and the reason being is it helps set a standardization And it helps with Understandability and so that people don't get distracted and go well Where's he from and what's happened to as a result of that over time is that if cuz I'm from our back Australia Okay, is that what happens is the English starts to standardize like we've got Kind of several dialects in Australia and one you've got like kind of deep out back You got down south and then you got kind of up north But what's happened is if you go to the cities you pretty much can't tell where anyone's from because we'll speak kind of the same Australian English Now even as I grew up my English has slowly changed like when I was growing up I'd pronounce with the th more for with and that was because of the German influence the heavy German influence in the Areas where I was growing up because a lot of them were originally German immigrants and that's how they spoke But now I speak just like everyone else and that's due to mass media like television all that type of stuff setting a standardization of how we speak English now Obviously that kills off dialects over time dialects are gonna disappear and I've read numerous articles about how dialects are Disappearing in some places in America. Obviously I've witnessed it here in Australia as time goes on dialects slowly disappear They still exist, but they're becoming more and more mitigated and I assume like in 50 years or so They just won't exist with a couple more generations. Now, that's that there's isolation The other one you have is social status. So like for instance, you look at the Queen's English. She when she was growing up I remember watching a documentary on this her English the way she spoke it was very what you'd call upper class Okay, because she was educated in a very particular way unlike the rest of society and the people within her level within that upper class Echelons they all spoke English in a certain way and you could kind of tell who was from what social standing but as time has gone by and You know those the education systems become more standardized and we all kind of are on the same plane kind of obviously not all But we're all more inclined to be on the same plane What's happened is obviously then the English language that she even speaks has become more standardized as society itself is now Changing the way she speaks and that I watched this documentary on how her English The way she speaks that has slowly changed over time to become more standardized from the very upper-class type of an upbringing She had so it's very interesting to see how one you got social and then to you got isolation and with Mass media these slowly start to disappear because we all now hear the same English and slowly we start to speak the same English So when people say oh my god dialects are gonna form and it's gonna destroy everything with Esperanto No, it's not gonna happen. It will never happen because of you know mass media The only way it's gonna happen is if the internet suddenly explodes We will go back to the dark ages and then most likely Esperanto would disappear because there's no big groupings of us anyway We're all over the place, but yeah, that's one thing and another thing is I recently read a article That was written by us. I'm not sure who was written by I forgot the name now But I'll put a link down there if I find it again. It was a study that was done on native Esperanto speakers I think five different families and the way that natives actually make the language more logical and when you think about it That's a good thing and I'll show you what I mean by more logical in a second But before I jump into that I just wanted to speak about my experiences I've traveled for Europe and I've gone for a few places I've actually met quite a fair few native Esperanto speakers and they generally speak Esperanto exactly like the people around them There's no difference in the way they speak and even if they became the majority something very unlikely But they there will definitely be a lot of native Esperanto speakers in the next generation or so Even if they became the majority They would still speak the language more and more logically as each generation goes along because one That's at the heart of the language short natives. They don't really care about that but two It's just the way the language is evolved. It's evolving more and more logically. That's just how it is now I want to give you some examples of native speakers now this first word might offend a few of you grumpy old You know prudes, but there was a native kid and he was he was in the shower and he was talking with his parents and He mentioned Peniso which means penis, okay, and he looked at the mum and he didn't know the word for the female You know sexual organ, whatever you want to call it. So what he then said was penicino He basically just grabbed peniso which means penis and he made it female by chucking their insuffix Onto the word and when you think about it, that's highly logical if you follow the logic of Esperanto grammar Okay, the way the language is built now Obviously if you're one of those people who wants to reform the language or whatever, you know, you're in you're you're going down that path That's probably gonna make you a little bit grumpy But it makes sense according to the rules of Esperanto and it also is more logical if you follow the rules completely now The traditional rules now another word we use the word battery, okay? Obviously and the word for battery is batterio. Now what this kid did is he didn't know the word so he used the next logical choice He said electruio, which means an electric container. It contains electricity That is highly logical to me like why didn't we use that word in the first place? It's so much more logical than batterio, which is unless you know the original meaning of the word then You know, you have to well you have to learn the whole word obviously, but electruio And that's that's completely logical and it saves on learning a new root word another one was a Kid said um instead of frotti lanazo in which is rub the noses, okay? He said um nazi, which means to nose that makes sense What else can you do with your nose apart from smell for things and that's falati? So, you know just rub nose it makes complete sense Another one said bushy to kiss That makes sense as well because there's only so many things you do with your mouth if you speak patoli you eat manji and To kiss well, I guess you could say kissy, but if he hasn't learned that word yet bushy which is to do mouth You know that makes sense it saves on having to learn another word Like I'm not saying that these words are gonna replace the the words that every other Esperanto is using But it just it's logical in the language now for us Since we've we don't come from like like an Esperanto thinking background We all come from our own native languages and we don't too mouth someone in any language. I don't know I don't know every language. Maybe you're doing some but in Esperanto. Um, you say kissy But for a kid who's growing up for these logical Rules of how the language works like he doesn't know the rules. He just instinctively knows it make a it makes sense Another one was lungetti, which means to lick or to small tongue and that makes sense If you look at for instance, the DD and the DDT, you know smile and um to laugh It is to laugh that makes sense because he's taking that same type of concept and he's applying it to tongue lungi It's really quite clever. Another one was malmeteno for nighttime or malvesped off or morning Makes sense to me and when you think about it, it's quite clever It's done like mal is used quite a bit in Esperanto So you'd think a kid would start natively using it with like freaking everything the things we wouldn't think about Another one a kid was talking to his mum about the fact that when she's no longer pregnant They'll be able to do all these things together and he said malgraveda, which means unpregnant Well, normally you just say when you're no longer pre-pregnant in like Esperanto It's that's what you would say But this kid just natively extended the use of mal and just applied it to graveda malgraveda Unpregnant makes sense and it's actually a lot more simplistic than what else you would normally say in Esperanto I'm another one a kid used was Seiji to chair and he used that in the way of meaning to sit Because a chair is only ever used really for sitting so he just applied that logic and when Seiji, you know Seiji sura kusenon to chair on the cushion to sit on the cushion. It made sense to him when you think about it Yeah, it makes sense. It's pretty clear. Now this one I actually read somewhere else This was someone else speaking about a native speaker and the word that he used for umbrella He used for the blue villa, which means away rain tool that is so cool And it makes sense because that's what an umbrella is umbrella is for the blue villa It's something that makes rain go away. That's pretty clever. It's pretty clever I'm sure unless you're gonna talk about like some scientific discovery where you know They fly planes into the clouds and get rid of rain clouds or whatever But it makes sense for the blue villa in like 99% of cases But yeah, I thought that was pretty cool Especially how native kids are actually making the language more logical And if you think about it in a few generations when you have tens of thousands possibly hundreds of thousands of native speakers Because it's gonna happen. It's definitely gonna happen. I've heard I've spoken with so many people of learning Esperanto And they're like, yeah sure I'll teach just to my kid And if you think about that eventually there's gonna be a lot of native speakers like when I have a kid I plan to teach them Esperanto one because I want to give them as much Like as many chances in life as possible like my missus she's gonna teach Chinese I'm gonna teach Esperanto and obviously we're gonna speak English together And I think like Esperanto will be great for especially for the Latin components and stuff like that and also for later on in life Like it's got three main language groups there like how cool is that? But anyway, there's gonna be a lot of native speakers and eventually they're gonna make the language more logical as time goes on So I thought that was a pretty fascinating I don't know about you guys But if you've liked this video give it a like share it around with your friends subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and I'll see you In the next video, and if you're not there, well, I'll find you and I will Seiji Sudevin