Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Any esperantists out there? Message-ID: <232@burl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jul-83 18:52:06 EDT Article-I.D.: burl.232 Posted: Sun Jul 10 18:52:06 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 05:57:55 EDT References: <1934@watarts.UUCP> Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC Lines: 20 Excuse me for my ignorance, but for the benefit of anyone else out there who doesn't know I will now post the definition of Esperanto to the net for the edification of all (@ == upside-down 'e'; capital letter indicates long, otherwise short): Es-pe-ran-to (es'p@-ran'tO) n. An artificial international language invented in 1887, characterized by a vocabulary based on word roots common to many European languages, a single, unvarying ending for each principal part of speech, and a regularized system of conjugation and inflection. [Invented by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof (died 1917), Polish philologist, who wrote under the name of *Dr. Esperanto*, "one who hopes."] Sounds like a good system for international communication. Also sounds boring and unromantic as hell. I vote no on Esperanto. So convert me already, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj