Project Gutenberg 2025-06-11 Public domain in the USA. 147 Vallienne, Henri 1854 1908 Por kaj kontraŭ Esperanto : $b Dialogo $aParis :$bPresa Esperantista Societo, $c1906. Andrew Sly, Mairi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Austrian National Library) "Por kaj kontraŭ Esperanto : Dialogo by Henri Vallienne" is a polemical dialogue written in the early 20th century. It presents a reasoned debate about an international auxiliary language, weighing objections and defenses of Esperanto. Framed as a conversational essay, it explores language, culture, and practicality, arguing that a neutral, easy, and regular tongue can aid science, commerce, travel, and understanding without replacing national languages. The book stages a lively exchange between Henriko, an ardent Esperantist, and Aleksandro, a skeptic who drops in after a train mishap. Henriko counters claims that an invented language is unnatural or unworkable, insisting Esperanto stays stable because it functions as a written, foreign medium among educated users, not as a replacement for native speech. He dismisses Latin as too hard and ill-suited to modern needs, demonstrating its inadequacy with a forced translation of railway terms, and contrasts Esperanto’s fixed pronunciation, simple grammar, and international roots. He cites congresses where speakers of many nations converse fluently, shows its utility for business and travel, and praises its power to open scientific literature and mirror the style of classics through supple translation (even when reciting Virgil). Henriko also touts its pedagogic clarity and envisions it as a modern heir to Latin—an instrument of peace and cooperation—before Aleksandro departs for his train, only half-convinced but intrigued. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8165675&order=1&view=SINGLE 20240718070556vallienne 1906 FR Reading ease score: 53.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. eo Esperanto Dialogues PM Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Language & Communication 67276 2025-07-30T07:24:50.654824 text/html 42596 2025-06-11T13:12:23 text/html 353214 2025-07-30T07:24:53.613787 application/epub+zip 351743 2025-07-30T07:24:51.653805 application/epub+zip 99632 2025-07-30T07:24:50.961801 application/epub+zip 521335 2025-07-30T07:24:55.037774 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 515667 2025-07-30T07:24:53.206801 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 56230 2025-07-30T07:24:50.501811 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 36311 2025-06-11T13:12:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13986 2025-07-30T07:24:55.190753 application/rdf+xml 11529 2025-07-30T07:24:51.180784 image/jpeg 1855 2025-07-30T07:24:51.096786 image/jpeg 304447 2025-07-30T07:24:50.669839 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog eo.wikipedia https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Vallienne