Originally Posted By: olly
Originally Posted By: BranShea
What's the use of translating Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tolstoy, any great litterature to Esperanto, when all those great writers are translated into practically all languages of the world?

For the same reason all the other languages have translated those texts, Cultural perspective. Ideas are sometimes translated more coherently in ones own lingo. Who's to say Esperanto doesn't generate it's own cultural Identity?

I suppose it does. But it seems so limited in spite of this effort to create a language accessible to everyone.