Re: ,Language' in language name?

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.

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