The French language is very literary and mental, isn't it? Yes, it's very rigid.Rigid, yes. They're beginning to wonder what Auroville's language will be. I think it will be a language that will ... (Laughing) The children are setting the example: they know several languages and make sentences with words from every language, and ... it's quite colorful! It's like the Americans. Their language ... the English say that have totally spoilt the language, but the Americans say that the way they speak has more life. That's how it is. People who speak Esperanto wrote me an official letter to say how many they are (a considerable number), and that they would like their Esperanto to be Auroville's language.... There are lots of people who speak that language, lots. Everywhere, I think. I got that letter two or three days ago. But Auroville's language, let it just be born spontaneously!Yes, spontaneously, naturally! Ah, we shouldn't intervene. For the time being, I write birth certificates in French.... And when there is a central organization (which will be like a town hall or a municipality, I don't know - anything), if passports are given, they will be citizens of the world.... So everywhere people will start saying, "They're a bit mad," and then in a hundred years ... it will be natural. I remember the beginning of the century (of this century, before you were born), and now ... there has been a tremendous CHANGE! page 128 - Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , March 28 - 1970 |