Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua : The Law of Persistence of Errors

Another hard criticism against Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua and other conlangs, answering a comment from a Esperantist in a post about the Grin Report’s support for Esperanto as Europe’s language:

Le meilleur est l’ennemi du bien, ‘The best is the enemy of the good’; Ever since Ido tried to ‘improve’ on Esperanto, many other constructed languages have come along, but none has achieved anything near to what Esperanto has accomplished

there are more than 30,000 book titles in Esperanto! And Esperanto has been around for more than 120 years! Most of the other attempts at a constructed language have fallen by the wayside.

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La Lingua Superrealejo de Sonja - Sonja’s Linguistic Surrealscape

In the website La Lingua Superrealejo de Sonja - Sonja's Linguistic Surrealscape you can find a self-made English-Esperanto dictionary, la Angla-Esperanto vortaro de Sonja. You can also find some word comparisons Esperanto-English-Russian-French, the Fakvortaro pri Sako, for quick reference.


Wordpress Translation Plugin into Esperanto and other languages

This Wordpress Translation Plugin supports Esperanto from version 1.2, i.e. from English into other language pairs. If you ask the creator, he might create new WordPress plugins from other languages into Esperanto as well. [tags]Esperanto,English,Conlang,IAL,International Auxiliary Language,Ido,Conference,Interlingua,Occidental,Novial,Slovio,Latin,Latine sine Flexione,EU,language policy,linguistic policy,EU language,Artificial language,natural language,linguistics,philology[/tags]


Esperanto, Ido, Lojban, Sindarin, Klingon and other game/experimental/invented languages’ supporters vs. Proto-Indo-European revival

Hard criticism on conlangs, in the Indo-European language revival site, also extended in the Indo-European Language blog and in their Indo-European forum. To all of you well-minded Esperantists and the rest of artificial languages’ supporters: First of all, thank you for your interest in Proto-Indo-European language revival. We appreciate your critics, whether ...


100 speak Toki Pona (conlang) fluently in chat rooms and blogs

Over a midmorning breakfast of waffles with whipped cream and bananas, Sonja Elen Kisa provides a crash course on her invented language, Toki Pona - "the simple language of good." Take the phrase "Canada has two official languages," she says: It translates to "ma Kanata li jo e toki suli tu," ...


Dr. Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language

CORVALLIS — The Oregon Chautauqua Lecture Series will present a collection of history, culture and ideas from 12:10 to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave. • July 17: “Magic Carpet Made of Steel: Songs of America’s Railroads,” by Jeni K. Foster. The glory ...