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T0dd (Å vise profilen) 2006 10 9 00:57:10
waxle:In a sense, the name "Esperanto" was the language's first idiom.
Since this was Zamenhof's chosen pen name, it makes sense. As a name for the language, it doesn't make much sense unless it is taken into the context and history of the language itself.
Frith Ra (Å vise profilen) 2006 10 9 04:58:16
As I recall, people started calling it "Dr. Esperanto's Language" when he wanted it to be called "La Internacia Lingvo." One thing, as they say, led to another. 
fojo (Å vise profilen) 2006 10 10 12:57:57
Why do you thing of the noun as the root? ("espero"); I always think of the verb ("esperi") then -ant, someone who performs the action stated, and -o, used as a name. A participle "participates" in the nature of a verb and a name, not of a name and a name. I am saying this without real thinking, really; it is my intuition that too much thinking in esperanto is counterproductive.