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Trucker_Fiction

Trucker_Fiction

Normal, IL
December 2003

DEC 28, 2003 09:24 AM

does anyone remember Esperanto? The international "business" language that was supposed to revolutionize global business and break down language barriers, but didnt work because CEOs of global corporations were too lazy to learn it?

more importantly, can anyone out there speak it?

just wondering.....

Leningrad

Leningrad

Canada
April 2003

DEC 28, 2003 09:25 AM

I remember, but I don't think that was it's intended use.

RACER_X

RACER_X

Philadelphia, PA
February 2003

DEC 28, 2003 10:25 AM

what0- stupid0- idea0... robot

Nic

Nic

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

DEC 28, 2003 12:50 PM

I read somewhere that more people can speak Klingon than Esperanto.

Estrada

Estrada

University Place, WA
OLD SKOOL

DEC 28, 2003 12:56 PM

aristocles likes to speak/learn Esperanto.

kennyg

kennyg

Berkeley, CA
November 2003

DEC 28, 2003 01:04 PM

I recently watched Incubus, a long lost movie with all of the dialog in Esperanto and starring William Shatner!

Dogslife

dogslife

Toronto, ON
April 2003

DEC 28, 2003 01:06 PM

Great article in an early issue of McSweeney's on Esperanto. No. 5 or 6, I think.

Dave_H

Dave_H

Bermuda
January 2003

DEC 28, 2003 01:09 PM

Nic said:
I read somewhere that more people can speak Klingon than Esperanto.



I've heard that too.

MisterJesus

MisterJesus

United Kingdom
November 2002

DEC 28, 2003 01:11 PM

Nic said:
I read somewhere that more people can speak Klingon than Esperanto.



I so hope that's true.

oh that would make me weep with joy.

TygerTyger

TygerTyger

Canada
March 2003

DEC 28, 2003 01:18 PM

Esperanto was most definitely not intended as a business language. The idea was to end wars and such. There weren;t really many global corporations around when it was invented, either.

Scopitone

Scopitone

Irvine, CA
OLD SKOOL

DEC 28, 2003 01:18 PM

I wager that the number of people that speak Elvish will surpass Klingon soon.

Ahriman

Ahriman

North York, ON
February 2003

DEC 28, 2003 01:22 PM

There was a an auther I read way back...think his name was Harry Harrison...thought that in the future, everyone would speak Esperanto. And being like ten, I was convinced that the sci-fi author was telling the truth. So I tried to get someone to teach me, but as luck would have it, there's nobody in southern Ontario who would.

So I forgot the language existed until this thread showed up. Strange days.
smile

Flux

Flux

SUICIDEGIRL

Georgia, USA

DEC 28, 2003 01:22 PM

SCREW ESPERANTO.

interlingua is where it's fuckin' at.

RagleGumm

RagleGumm

Canada
September 2003

DEC 28, 2003 05:52 PM

Trucker_Fiction said:
does anyone remember Esperanto? The international "business" language that was supposed to revolutionize global business and break down language barriers, but didnt work because CEOs of global corporations were too lazy to learn it?



Sounds like XML smile

(though it's more like CEOs of corporations are too lazy/impatient to learn how to use it properly. Oh, and Microsoft can be headsmackingly obtuse, in case you didn't know)

kennyg

kennyg

Berkeley, CA
November 2003

DEC 28, 2003 06:12 PM

SCREW INTERLINGUA!

Lojban holds the promise of an invented spoken language that would be easier for computers to understand.

Cheech

Cheech

Portland, OR
January 2003

DEC 28, 2003 06:12 PM

I read a language book by Anthony Burgess where he was critiquing Esperanto. I think he was okay with it, but he pointed out some obvious mistakes...

...such as, most languages have a word for "school" that looks like "school"-- escuela, skol, etc etc...but Esperanto used some totally dissimilar word for it.

You know a language isn't very well-known if you have to go around asking people if they've even heard of it...

kennyg

kennyg

Berkeley, CA
November 2003

DEC 28, 2003 06:26 PM

Cheech said:

You know a language isn't very well-known if you have to go around asking people if they've even heard of it...



Yeah, on the Lojban page, they list where it is spoken: the annual Lojban conference (~20 attendees) and one guy teaches a class.

Scylla

Scylla

SUICIDEGIRL

Tuvalu

DEC 28, 2003 06:41 PM

I've rubbed one or two out to Incubus in my time.

burbankcitylines

burbankcitylines

I'm lost
October 2003

DEC 29, 2003 01:03 AM

According to esperanto.org its used by millions of people to solve international crisis.

-Sean in LA

djk29a

djk29a

Korea, D.P.R.
April 2003

DEC 29, 2003 02:46 AM

I think Fark had an article saying that more people speak Klingon than Esperanto, as well as way more people speaking Klingon than Cherokee, which is pretty obvious to me now.

Esperanto's not that useful to me for anything because it's not a native human tongue. It's sad to see really obscure languages with interesting features dying while some of the most boring languages out there persist. Of course, even these languages will be gone eventually.

s3

s3

United Kingdom
November 2003

DEC 29, 2003 06:40 AM

for reasons unknown to me, Esperanto was (is?) dead popular in the ex Eastern Bloc (like: Poland, Soviet, E.Germany, Bulgaria etc)

Flux

Flux

SUICIDEGIRL

Georgia, USA

DEC 29, 2003 07:25 AM

djk29a said:
I think Fark had an article saying that more people speak Klingon than Esperanto, as well as way more people speaking Klingon than Cherokee, which is pretty obvious to me now.



as a member of the Cherokee nation, i feel perfectly valid in saying holy fuck. frown

Trucker_Fiction

Trucker_Fiction

Normal, IL
December 2003

DEC 29, 2003 07:52 AM

wow... thanks for all the info... forgive my ignorance on thinking it was invented for business, but that's what I was originally told... excuse me while I go and slap someone upside the head...

Jeff_Fries

Jeff_Fries

Humptulips, WA
September 2003

DEC 29, 2003 08:06 AM

Trucker_Fiction said:
does anyone remember Esperanto? The international "business" language that was supposed to revolutionize global business and break down language barriers, but didnt work because CEOs of global corporations were too lazy to learn it?



It was intended to be a language THE WHOLE WORLD was going to speak, so we'd all be on the same page for once. But the guy who invented it forgot that even if he did get the whole world speaking it, lingual drift would ensure that it would end up breaking into different languages in different regions anyhow.

AndersWolleck

AndersWolleck

Astoria, NY
February 2003

DEC 29, 2003 09:07 AM

william shatner can

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