 What's up guys? Evil Deer here and today I'm going to talk a little bit about the evolution of Esperanto. Now Esperanto is a 130 year old language but it is a living language and it is evolving over time and changing based on the needs of the community and also based on the whims of the community of speakers. Now I've decided to make this video because I've seen some comments from particularly polyglots who say you know Esperanto is this language that's not a real language, it's not a living language. So I basically wanted to prove to you that it is evolving language, it is a changing language and I'm going to use one word and we're going to track this one word through the history of its use within Esperanto and we're going to look at how it's changed over time. Now I'm not going to focus on the grammar of Esperanto because that's a totally different topic and I will in the future talk about the evolution of the grammar of Esperanto but in this video I wanted to focus on just one word so we're going to focus on the word computer. Computer is a fairly new concept but it's been around for some time and I'm going to show you how this word has evolved in Esperanto and changed over time and I'm going to do this by first showing you early physical dictionaries which include the word computer and then I'm going to show you modern dictionaries mainly online ones. So first up I have four physical dictionaries here with me. One, two, three and four and after this I'll show you two online dictionaries which are completely up to date. So the first dictionary I'm showing you is this one Esperanto English dictionary and it's from JC Wells and we're going to quickly have a look at when it was published so we can get some time frame of what we're looking at here. So this dictionary was published in 1969. Now there isn't I think a more up-to-date version of this dictionary but I wanted to get this one because it's 1969. So that's probably around the time computers were starting to first enter you know general discussion within the community you know just in between normal people in general. Obviously computers were around before then but they were more of a scientific mathematical you know study point. That weren't something you'd talk about in everyday conversation. Anyway this is the oldest dictionary I have physical oldest so we're going to look at the word computer here. So in here if I go to it computer so they've got computer here have a look there. Now what it says is computer is electronic calculator and they've also put a star next to a second word which is computer. So basically they've said it's an electric calculator. Now back then calculator there was actually a different word for calculator but that's how it would translate to modern Esperanto. So what they're saying at that time frame was something along the lines of electric calculating tool not necessarily the modern calculator that we use and they've got the word computer. So you can see they basically just grabbed that directly from English because that's where computers were invented within the English speaking world and they've got a star next to it kind of indicating that you know this is a new word and they're recommending that you use electronic calculator. So that was 1969 let's move up next up we have this dictionary here by the way if you're curious where I got these dictionaries I literally just went to secondhand shops and asked do you have any Esperanto books and you know in a lot of big secondhand book shops you will find Esperanto books. Okay this is a third edition the first was 1963 but this one's from 1985. Now if I open this one let's put this down we have this one funnily enough doesn't even have the word for computer but it does have the word for compute. So it shows you still at that time frame in history computers were still a fairly new concept. So let's have a look you can see it says compute and the word that they've got for compute is Calculi. So remember in the previous one they were recommending Calculilo, Electrona Calculilo then Computero and this one they're just saying Calculi for compute. So you can see that Calculi is now taking on the meaning of compute within these two dictionaries but previous to this it was to calculate. Okay so now we've looked at those two let's move on to the next one this is a beast of a dictionary quite an interesting one so this is not purely an Esperanto dictionary it's actually a dictionary I think within 11 languages yes so international business dictionary in 11 languages and it's got English Esperanto German Spanish French Italian Italian Dutch Portuguese not 100% I think that's like Slovakia or something I don't know and then you've got Japanese and Chinese so now let's jump into this one oh by the way I need to point out what year this one is from 1990 so we've gone up quite a time frame now we've gone from 1963 we're now up to 1990 so here we have computer and you can actually see the definitions are both in English and in Esperanto and then there's a translation into other languages so the word they've got for computer there is computado interesting so it's a separate word again we still don't see any reference to the modern word which is computilo now here this was from the 1990s so this is not that long ago okay let's swap now to a more modern dictionary this dictionary here Esperanto English Esperanto dictionary you can all actually see these are all from totally different companies and groups this one was published in 1995 so now we are definitely in the age of computers windows 95 was actually one of the first systems I installed apart from windows 3.1 so let's see what the word for computer was at this stage computers have definitely entered the general community we have computer now the word they're recommending is computado so so far it started with computero moved into computado and it seems like computado is now starting to establish itself they've even given a word for laptop computer here and they've called it surgenua computado which literally translates to a computer that sits on your knees funnily enough both of these terminologies don't exist in modern Esperanto I'm now going to quickly show you some online dictionaries so as you can see in these online dictionaries the modern word for computer is computilo so it's changed again it's gone from computero to computado to computilo and computilo is now the general word we use in the Esperanto community for computer you will not see anyone except for maybe a really old Esperanto speaker who uses computado or computero computilo is a word that has replaced both of these other words and I believe the reason is is because Esperanto is a logical language and we prefer in general to follow the idea that we build words from other words rather than introducing new words so computero was a new concept it was a completely new word computado again was a new concept completely new word but computi means to compute and iloc means tools so you shove those two together why learn a completely new word when you can just learn a new conmetaggio which is a new joining of two words so a word within a fix so as you can see Esperanto has evolved over time and what generally happens with Esperanto and basically any language is that when a new concept or idea enters a bunch of competing forms will appear for that word and eventually one of those forms will generally win out so at the beginning we had two competing forms computero computado and it was eventually defeated by computilo by the way remember this dictionary said laptop was surgenua computado the modern word for laptop is teco computilo which literally translates to briefcase computer so as you can see Esperanto is an evolving language it's not a static language and it actually evolves in general to become more logical so in future videos i'll look at some of the grammar of Esperanto and how that's evolved anyway if you've liked this video like it share it around sub to my channel if you haven't already and i'll see you all in the next video