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Skriven 2007-05-23 12:07:00 av PETER COGGON
     Kommentar till en text av ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
Ärende: Espereanto
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Hello Alexander.,

  Well I found on part of the answers I had to find.

  Here is the one about Espereanto that came into the BBS
a few days ago.    Along with a host of others to read and
to answer back.

  Hope you enjoy Andy G0TEZ's posting. He lives in the UK.


  <<  Quoting G0TEZ to LANG@WW >>
>From         : G0TEZ
>To           : LANG  @WW      
>Type/Status  : B$
>Date/Time    : 20-May 19:52
>Bid          : 31515-GB7FCR
>Message #    : 187534
>Title        : Espereanto etc.?
>Path: !CX4AE!CX2SA!IW2OAZ!IK2XDE!DB0RES!ON0AR!
>      !I0TVL!N9ZZK!W4JAX!GB7FCR!
>
>From: G0TEZ@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
>To  : LANG@WW
>
> There used to be a packet group, now long gone, who sent
> messages and news of societies in Esperanto.
>
> I tried learning some Esperanto, as well as Ordsprak and
> Interlingua (It wasn't the only artificial language) in
> my teens.
>
> L.L.Zamenhof had noticed the mixture of languages in the
> balkans wnere he lived and,in the hope (Esperanto means
> 'I hope.' of getting people to communicate and promote
> peace, he came up with this artificial language.
>
> At one point, there were in excess of 3,000 people, the
> population of Norway, speaking Esperanto. The USSR
> transmitted programmes in it and distributed learning
> materials for people who wanted a world language.
>
> It was an easy language, based mainly of Latin but had
> the problem with all the artificial languages, namely,
> that the grammar is not the hard part to write but the
> problem comes with the vocabulary. Not only were there
> some howlers with Esperanto but while it was easy for
> Europeans. It was almost as hard as English for other
> people such as Chinese,Arabs etc.
>
> So they learned English which had spread throughout the
> British Empire and, with the onset of air travel and
> computers, had taken over the business world. MTV has
> spread US English through the world's teenage population.
>
>  What prompted this bull was the fact that I have recently
> watched two Sci Fi films, one where the aliens used Cornish.
> Now spoken by about a thousand people and the other, I
> realised, had the Aliens speaking Esperanto.
>
>  So I wonderd if anyone still spoke it. The last time I saw
> it was on packet but with the contributions diminishing,
> Esperanto is one of the many topics which has gone - Is
> there anyone left who can answer my question.
>
> Cu Vi havas Esperantojn.
>
> ???]
>
>73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7FCR
>
>Message timed: 19:47 GMT on 2007-May-20
>Message sent using WinPack-Telnet V6.80
>
>[End of Message #187534 from G0TEZ]

  <<---------------------------eot-------------------------->>

I will send your text on the matter back to him, for a comment.

ttfn

Peter


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