Speak Esperanto, Your Life Even Shorten

Last time, we have talked about that speak English, your life will be shorten. But speak Esperanto, your life will be even shorter. The demonstration would be easier. To prove the life of English speaker, we need combination of mathematics, but to prove the Esperanto causes your life shorter just need addition and subtraction.

If you know some words of Esperanto you may find that trying to be a semantic language, nearly all the words in Esperanto double the size of English words. If you don’t know the words of Esperanto, you may check them in an internet dictionary: http://www.lexicool.com/esperanto-dictionary-translation.asp

Filly= ĉevalidino,

Pork= porkaĵo

Let’s check the second example. In English the word ‘pork’ is one syllable, while in Esperanto is ‘porkaĵo’ three syllables. Why this happened? Because Esperanto is trying to be a semantic language, that is using self-explained words instead the normal words, the ‘ĵo’ means ‘meat’, the whole word of ‘porkaĵo’ means ‘pig’s meat’. From this we can rethink why the English ancestors introduce a word ‘pork’ to replace the compound word of ‘pig-meat’? Because the word ‘pork’ is shorter than ‘pig meat’ in pronunciation. A butcher utter one thousand times this word would save a lot of energy than utter the word ‘pig-meat’.

The inventor of Esperanto didn’t know this, so they invent a language full of semantic words like ‘porkaĵo’. The result is simple. Since most of the Esperanto words double the size of English, then throughout the life you speak Esperanto will half the information intake, during that period.