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From: d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg)
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Subject: Re: Esperanto
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 19:06:52 EDT
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In article <2081@ihlpa.UUCP> normt@ihlpa.UUCP (N. R Tiedemann) writes:
>> Can someone please explain what Esperanto is?  I've never heard of it
>> . . .
>>         Steve Wall  @  Rochester Institute of Technology
>
>Esperanto is a "universal" language that was invented by an international
>group of linguistics about 20 (I think) years ago....

About 100 years ago, actually, by one Polish oculist, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof.

>of the modern languages and invented some new ones to boot. To my knownledge
>it never made it past the linguistics conventions. It is not really spoken
>by anyone, and the only place one can learn it is from a book. If you go to
>any college library there will be a couple of grammer manuals on Esperanto.
>(I looked them up once at the UW in Madison.)
>		Norm Tiedemann
>		..ihnp4!ihlpa!normt
>		AT&T Bell Labs

I really speak it. It is taught in a night class in New York City. There
are *active* Esperanto associations around the world. High level courses
are held each summer at San Francisco State University, and it is estimated
by the membership of the various organizations that almost a million people
have at least a rudimentary grasp of Esperanto.

For more information and a free postal lesson course, you can write to:

Universala Esperanto-Asocio
United Nations Liaison Office
777 U.N. Plaza
New York City, NY 10017

	or

Esperanto League for North America
Box 1129
El Cerrito, CA 94530

	or

Canadian Esperanto Association
P.O. Box 2159
Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S3 CANADA

(If there is sufficient interest I will post the first postal lesson to
sci.lang.)

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