Ensjo saluta le Incontro Nordic 2008

Greetings. To those of you who don't know me, I am Emerson José Silveira da Costa, current president of Brazilian Union for Interlingua, and in its name I want to wish to you gathered in Linköping, Sweden, a much prosper Nordic Interlingua Meeting, an event that may be already considered a real nordic tradition. During these days you will have an experience of "immersion" in the usage of interlingua, this "secret code" of us, which, surprisingly, can be understood at first sight by millions of people in the whole world. Because, as we know, interlingua is not an invention by Gode or IALA. Instead, it is the concretization of a real phenomenon, the common vocabulary that permeates the European languages and that through them has been transported to the whole world. This makes interlingua an effective communication tool, which one can learn with relatively little effort, which, unfortunately, many people still don't know. Thus, I wish that this meeting will be not only a very nice occasion to meet friends and have fun, but that it will be equally a catalyst to many good ideas for the diffusion of interlingua. Good luck and good work.