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How did you come to Esperanto?

von Uvi, 19. November 2009

Beiträge: 55

Sprache: English

Momomomomo (Profil anzeigen) 26. November 2009 17:58:03

I first heard of Esperanto from my mum. She got really bored being made to say the lords prayer every day in assembly back when she was at school. To shake things up, her and her best friend learnt it in Esperanto instead, there were enough people and they said it quietly enough that no one noticed. I don't know why she picked Esperanto but when she told me the story years later I, well, didn't take that much interest actually. It was a fun story but I didn't at that point go "Awesome! I wanna learn that language!" But last year I decided I would probably like it, I'd already gone though a linguistically rebellious stage of trying and failing to make up my own language and thought Esperanto would suit me.

Uvi (Profil anzeigen) 27. November 2009 05:54:02

Momomomomo:I first heard of Esperanto from my mum. She got really bored being made to say the lords prayer every day in assembly back when she was at school. To shake things up, her and her best friend learnt it in Esperanto instead, there were enough people and they said it quietly enough that no one noticed. I don't know why she picked Esperanto but when she told me the story years later I, well, didn't take that much interest actually. It was a fun story but I didn't at that point go "Awesome! I wanna learn that language!" But last year I decided I would probably like it, I'd already gone though a linguistically rebellious stage of trying and failing to make up my own language and thought Esperanto would suit me.
Linguistically rebellious, that sounds like a term my wife and I would use rido.gif

Inventing your own language is fun though. Her and I share that sort of healthy insanity as well sal.gif

Rogir (Profil anzeigen) 27. November 2009 16:10:39

Some people even like their created languages so much that they write literary masterpieces to get other people enthusiastic for those languages.

Miland (Profil anzeigen) 27. November 2009 17:44:31

Rogir:Some people even like their created languages so much that they write literary masterpieces to get other people enthusiastic for those languages.
Could you give one or two examples?

Borgo (Profil anzeigen) 27. November 2009 18:17:11

I was listening to NPR (for those who don't know, NPR, National Public Radio, is a non-profit news radio show in the US) and they had a piece on Klingon. I thought it was hilarious that there are people who actually speak Klingon; so when I got home, I looked it up on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia page also mentioned other constructed languages but said that Esperanto was by far the most popular. So, I started reading about Esperanto and I really liked the idea of it.

Rogir (Profil anzeigen) 28. November 2009 02:01:24

@Miland: I meant Tolkien.

Oŝo-Jabe (Profil anzeigen) 28. November 2009 07:27:10

I first heard about Esperanto when I was doing an archive binge of Wikipedia. I got reading about Newspeak, from the book 1984, and the idea of very regularized grammar was intriguing to me. Wikipedia being as it is, I found myself at the page for Esperanto a few clicks later. I read the article, and found out that it was the most spoken IAL in the world. Some of the things I read like its role as a springboard to other languages (I hope to learn Spanish, Japanese and French) and the Pasporta Servo interested me, so I took the Pacujo course.

ceigered (Profil anzeigen) 28. November 2009 08:23:35

Gotta love Wikipedia binges (or Wiki races for that matter).

Miland (Profil anzeigen) 28. November 2009 11:04:06

Rogir:@Miland: I meant Tolkien.
That's very interesting, I just found this page which says that Tolkien was interested in inventing languages all his life. That sounds like some of the forumers here!

Rogir (Profil anzeigen) 28. November 2009 17:22:49

It seems that having a wikipedia in Esperanto has interested quite some extra people in the language.

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