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Re: Is conlang a generator of conlangers? or a sustainer? (was: Oops!)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, October 9, 1998, 8:06
>Now that I think of it, I've had other literary influences. Particularly >Philip Josi Farmer. Have you read anything by him? His greatest work, the >Riverworld saga, features the whole human race resurrected along the coast >of a 16-million-km river in an artificial planet. The problem of communication >is terrible. He talks a lot about it. After a few years, most of humanity is >speaking a debased dialectal form of Esperanto... > > >--Pablo Flores >
I read it. A great work (5 books in French translation)! And very good for the Esperanto movement (imagine, billions of people speaking Esperanto!). I bought it by chance (there was a week of book-selling in the store where my mother works, and she advised me to buy some -there was a free book every 3 books bought, I bought 7 books and had 2 free ones-) but I loved it immediately. I think it caused me to learn Esperanto. I must prepare myself for my future life in the Riverworld! Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. homepage: http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html