tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post189170985321035747..comments2011-01-25T16:30:45.525+01:00bulbulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14505565281151328789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post-86291098151547675872011-01-25T16:30:45.525+01:002011-01-25T16:30:45.525+01:00But the Google joke mentioned Esperanto as &quot;the failed language&quot;. <br /><br />No more subsidies! <br />Yet it made so much sense. It was such a great idea.<br /><br />There won&#39;t be any misunderstandings anymore and the wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox and all shall speak Esperanto.(with apologies to Isaiah)cantuesohttp://espliego.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post-16098387649813422132011-01-22T16:59:12.977+01:002011-01-22T16:59:12.977+01:00<i>the recognition it deserves</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/" rel="nofollow">O RLY?</a><br /><br /><i>it&#39;s slowly but surely moving in that direction</i><br /><br />Numbers, please.David Marjanovićnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33245564.post-18406346643357742022011-01-13T00:51:19.339+01:002011-01-13T00:51:19.339+01:00I loved the reference to Esperanto here. However, your readers should know that Esperanto itself is far from a joke.<br /><br />Esperanto hasn&#39;t yet gained the recognition it deserves. However, all things considered, it has actually done amazingly well. In just over 120 years, it has managed to grow from a drawing-board project with just one speaker in one country to a complete and living natural language with around 2,000,000 speakers in over 120 countries and a rich literature and cosmopolitan culture, with little or no official backing and even bouts of persecution. It hasn&#39;t taken the world by storm - yet - but it&#39;s slowly but surely moving in that direction, with the Internet giving it a significant boost in recent years.Bill Chapmannoreply@blogger.com