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Re: ,Language' in language name?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 16:32
En réponse à Padraic Brown <agricola@...>:

> > The (an) answer is: Esperanto. No conculture -> does not contain > "language".
Well, originally the name of the language was 'la lingvo internacia', 'Esperanto' being part of the pseudonym of Zamenhof: 'Doktoro Esperanto'. But the change of name was early enough to consider that no-one except Zamenhof himself ever called the language 'lingvo internacia' :))) . And one can argue that Esperanto doesn't have an associated culture. IMHO, it's the very presence of a paraculture associated to Esperanto (the so- called 'interna ideo' and sort of a mythology with legends about Zamenhof and the early years of Esperanto) that kept the Esperantist community growing, contrary to 99% of the other auxlangs communities (I hope I'm not beginning a flamewar, but I'm just stating facts. While nearly everyone hears at least once in his/her life about Esperanto - even in a negative way - how many laymen have ever heard of at least Ido? Not many I believe, and most of them through Esperanto first :))) ). IIRC the Loglan/Lojban community, though small, is still growing, but it seems that they are also inventing their own para-culture. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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