Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

Tom Wier wrote:
>
> Jim Henry wrote:
> > Another point I meant to make (but perhaps didn't) was that life is
> > short, and any language I put significant effort into becoming fluent
> > in will have to have attractions other than the purely linguistic.
> > With French and Classical Greek it's primarily books, with
> > Esperanto it's mainly people, but other nifty languages like Vorlin,
> > Lojban, and Teonaht, with all due respect to Rick Harrison, lojbab
> > et alia, and Sally Caves, don't have those attractions.
I missed this the first time 'round.  This is so weird to hear this!
Teonaht has a rich context for me, of course, which is so impossible
to convey to another person.  Of course I haven't made the grand
literature available yet, <G>  the peculiar histories, the operas,
the books of wisdom, and the medical and magical sagas... not to mention
the world of the gods and cats... but there it is.  As you say,
"life is short!"

I don't know Vorlin.  Does Eco mention it?
Sally