From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Tue Jan 6 19:40:02 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:02 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto & Labour [Esperanto & Laboro] Message-ID: Jen malnova pamfleto cxe mia retejo: Esperanto and Labour. London: The British League of Esperantist Socialists, July 1923. 16 pp. [+ front & back covers, outside & inside] The author of this pamphlet is Mark Starr, according to Arthur Nobes, BLEA kaj IPE. Historio de la Brita Laborista Esperanto-Asocio kaj Internacio de Proleta Esperantistaro, Rochester 1983, p. 5. A photo depicting Starr among BLEA-activists in 1926 appears on p. 8. (Thanks to Ulrich Lins.) Mark Starr verkis cxi tiun brosxuron (Esperanto kaj Laboro), la Arthur Nobes, BLEA kaj IPE. Historio de la Brita Laborista Esperanto-Asocio kaj Internacio de Proleta Esperantistaro, Rochester 1983, p. 5. Foto, kiu montras Starr inter BLEA-aktivuloj en 1926, aperas cxe p. 8. (Dankon al Ulrich Lins.) http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/esperantolabour.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090106/0a64df42/attachment.html From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Wed Jan 7 02:10:25 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:10:25 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Mort-al Foot in Mouth In-Reply-To: <4909127F.3000208@cox.net> References: <4909127F.3000208@cox.net> Message-ID: I finally got around to looking up this book. The complete reference is: Beam, Alex. A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008. The weird quote on Esperanto appears on page 31. I'm guessing Adler was trying to be a wise guy. He also registered his cable address as "Analerotic, Chicago." This may have been a way of dissociating himself from his roots and declaring his cosmopolitanism (as Jim suggests). On page 32-33 we learn that Adler rejected Judaism, and there was no Jewish tradition in the family. Adler had a life-long obsession with Catholic theology, attended Episcopalian and later Catholic Churches, converting to Episcopalianism at the age of 81 and Catholicism at the age of 97, dying at 99. It seems that Adler, like so many immigrant-spawn, worshipped at the shrine of the WASP ideal as well as Western Civ, which made Robert Hutchins the perfect idol for him. I must say I find all this profoundly nauseating, but in any case, this book is a quite entertaining romp through one of the greatest enterprises of educational hucksterism of the 20th century. We shall see if the book delves more deeply into Adler's ideology beyond his curious selection principles for the Great Books. I have no idea what Adler really thought of Esperanto. Once again, some background sources of interest: Cotkin, George. "Middle-Ground Pragmatists: The Popularization of Philosophy in American Culture," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 55, no. 2, April 1994, 283-302. Macdonald, Dwight. "The Book-of-the-Millennium Club," in Against the American Grain: Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture (New York: Vintage Books, 1965), pp. 243-261. Reisch, George. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Rubin, Joan Shelley. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. At 08:48 PM 10/29/2008, Jim Ryan wrote: >Another entry in the long, strange saga of the (mis-)(ab-)use of >"Esperanto" by non-Esperantists to mean heaven knows what. > >This one is from a book I'm reading, A Great Idea at the Time: The >Rise, Fall and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books. Great Books >scholar and booster Mortimer Adler is describing his own background >and temperament employing various contrasts, including: > >"Jewish and German by ancestry but anti-Semitic and Esperanto by nature." > >Huh? In context, and knowing Adler, I think he means "not bound by >Jewish or German (or presumably any other) culture or traditions, >but rather international and cosmpolitan." > >But what a way to put it! "Anti-Semitic and Esperanto"! What an >ironic turn of phrase, especially given how Zamenhof was >intellectually nurtured by Jewish traditions, how he was a Yiddish >scholar as well as a general polyglot and linguist, and how >Homaranismo began as Hilelismo. And how the Nazis persecuted >Esperanto as being a tool of the Jews, and how Zamenhof's children >died in concentration camps, etc. etc. Esperanto was one of the >many gifts of Jewry to the world. > >"Anti-Semitic and Esperanto" is the most ridiculous pairing since >... well, I'll let you all supply better examples of rhetorical "odd >couples." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090107/6d30b626/attachment.html From davegaines at aol.com Wed Jan 7 12:50:29 2009 From: davegaines at aol.com (David Gaines) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:50:29 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto proposal at Change.org Message-ID: This proposal, miraculously, finished 2nd in the Education category at Change.org's first round of idea submittals and is now in the 2nd round. It's in 30th place at the moment -- please go to Change.org and vote for it. Win or lose, however, it is generating one of the most vigorous discussions at that entire website and presenting the idea of teaching Esperanto to numerous people who have never even heard of the language before: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/introduce_esperanto_as_a_foreign_language_subject_in_schools DG -------- The Happy Chinchilla Unique lifestyle items for chinchilla owners and those who wish they were www.cafepress.com/happychinchilla -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090107/b361ec8b/attachment.html From volcheck at acm.org Wed Jan 7 23:11:51 2009 From: volcheck at acm.org (Emil Volcheck) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:11:51 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto proposal at Change.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David! Ege bone! Mi vochdonis kaj mi aprobis la proponon! --Emil 2009/1/7 David Gaines : > This proposal, miraculously, finished 2nd in the Education category at > Change.org's first round of idea submittals and is now in the 2nd round. > It's in 30th place at the moment -- please go to Change.org and vote for it. > Win or lose, however, it is generating one of the most vigorous discussions > at that entire website and presenting the idea of teaching Esperanto to > numerous people who have never even heard of the language before: > > http://www.change.org/ideas/view/introduce_esperanto_as_a_foreign_language_subject_in_schools > > DG > > -------- > The Happy Chinchilla > Unique lifestyle items for chinchilla owners and those who wish they were > www.cafepress.com/happychinchilla > > _______________________________________________ > Membroj mailing list > Membroj at esperantosocieto.org > http://esperantosocieto.org/mailman/listinfo/membroj_esperantosocieto.org > > -- Emil Volcheck volcheck at acm.org http://EmilVolcheck.com/ From volcheck at acm.org Mon Jan 19 22:40:14 2009 From: volcheck at acm.org (Emil Volcheck) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:40:14 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Zamenhof bankedo 1a Februaro Message-ID: Our Esperanto banquet will be SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 at 7:00 pm at Burma restaurant in Chinatown. Dinner will be $15 including tax and tip. Our speaker will be an Esperantist from Mongolia who will talk about that ancient nation. Details will follow soon. But please RSVP me as soon as you can tell me you can come. Jim Ryan 703-317-9779 / 703-395-0036 ************************** Nia esperanta bankedo estos DIMANCXON, 1. FEBRUARO je la 7-a ptm cxe restoracio "Burma" en la cxina kvartalo. Nia parolanto estos esperantistino el Mongolio kiu parolos pri tiu antikva lando. Detaloj sekvos baldau. Sed bonvolu sciigi min cxu vi povos veni kiel eble plej baldau. -- Emil Volcheck volcheck at acm.org http://EmilVolcheck.com/ From volcheck at acm.org Mon Jan 19 23:06:56 2009 From: volcheck at acm.org (Emil Volcheck) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:06:56 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Inauguracio Tago Message-ID: Morgau mi iros al la National Mall por vidi la Inauguracion de Barack Obama! Mi portos mian verdan stelon (green star pin) char Obama estas esper-ant-o (iu kiu esperas)! Se vi volas teksti min, mia poshtelefonnumero estas (443) 791-9910. --Emil -- Emil Volcheck volcheck at acm.org http://EmilVolcheck.com/ From quillpower at cox.net Sat Jan 24 12:43:54 2009 From: quillpower at cox.net (Jim Ryan) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:43:54 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto banquet February 1 Message-ID: <497B535A.1080409@cox.net> ESPERANTO SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON BANQUET 2009 (Version in Esperanto below) Greetings to friends of Esperanto! You are cordially invited to our banquet to honor Esperanto and its founder, Ludovic Lazar Zamenhof: DATE: Sunday, February 1, 2009 TIME: 7:00 PM PLACE: Burma Restaurant, 740 Sixth Street, NW, just south of H Street, 2nd floor), Chinatown. PRICE: Just $15 per person, including tax and tip - you can't beat that price for a sumptuous banquet in Washington! This full-course Burmese meal includes appetizers and wide selection of Asian delicacies as entr?es. (Beer and wine extra.) If you haven't tried this delectable cuisine, you owe it to yourself! SPEAKER: Mongolian Esperantist ALTANTSETSEG MYAGMAR, an official at the economic / commercial section of the U.S. embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Altan has worked as an English teacher, and translator of English and Hungarian. She also speaks Russian and Japanese, and she spent two years at the Tokyo University of Foreign Languages, where she was also active in the Japanese Esperanto movement. She holds a master's degree from the University of Reading in England. She will speak about her ancient land of Mongolia, Esperanto in Asia and her many fascinating travels and experiences. Of course we will also enjoy Esperanto poetry, songs, news, and conversation. Everyone is encouraged to bring his or her own contributions to the program. Our banquet taking place in February this year is appropriate for three reasons: The last full week of February is International Friendship Week, an observance created by Esperantists in 1969 to encourage contacts between people across countries and cultures with the slogan "Friendship Across Borders." Feb. 21 is observed every year by UNESCO as International Mother Language Day to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. Or course, Esperanto, as a politically and culturally neutral bridge language, has long been an ally of linguistic minorities by transmitting their works of literature, and could help protect them from being buried by culture-laden steamrollers of majority national tongues. Finally, this season is an excellent time to celebrate the election of our new President, Barack Obama! NOTE: A reporter from The Washington Post will probably attend and report on the banquet. So please make an effort to boost the turnout! PLEASE RSVP to Jim Ryan via phone (703-317-9779 or 703-395-0036) or e-mail (quillpower at cox.net) as soon as possible. ESPERANTO-SOCIETO DE WASHINGTON BANKEDO 2009 Saluton al geamikoj de Esperanto! Vi estas kore invitataj al nia bankedo por honori Esperanton kaj g^ian fondinton, Ludovikon Lazaron Zamenhof: DATO: Dimanc^on, 1. februaro 2009 TEMPO: La 7-a horo ptm LOKO: Restoracio "Burma," 740 Sixth Street, NW, iomede sude de H- Strato; 2-a etag^o), c^ina kvartalo. PREZO: Nur $15 po persono, inkluzive de imposto kaj trinkmono - oni ne povas g^ui pli bonan prezon por luksa bankedo en Vas^intono! C^i tiu multplada birma vesper?mang^o inkluzivas aperivitivojn kaj vastan elekton de aziaj frandaj^oj kiel c^efpladojn. (Biero kaj vino estas kromkotizaj.) Se vi ankorau( ne provis c^i tiun frandindan kuirarton, vi s^uldas al vi mem la plezuron! SPEAKER: Mongola Esperantisto ALTANTSETSEG MYAGMAR, oficulo c^e la ekonomia / komerca fako de la usona ambasadejo en Ulaanbaatar, Mongolio. Altan laboris kiel instruisto de la angla lingvo kaj tradukisto de la angla kaj hungara. S^i jam laboris kiel instruisto de la angla kaj tradukisto de la angla kaj hungara. S^i ankau( parolas ruse kaj japane, kaj pasigis du jarojn c^e la Tokia Universitato de Fremdaj Lingvoj, kie s^i ankau( aktivis en la japana esperanta movado. S^i havas magistrecon de la Universitato de Reading en Angio. S^i parolos pri sia antikva lando Mongolio, Esperanto en Azio kaj siaj multaj fascinaj vojag^oj kaj spertoj. Kompreneble ni ankau( g^uos Esperantajn poezion, kantojn, novaj^ojn, kaj konversacion. C^iuj estas instigataj kunpreni siajn proprajn kontri?buojn al la programo. Ke nia bankedo okazu en februaro c^ijare tau(gas pro tri kialoj: La lasta plena semajno de februaro estas la Semajno de Internacia Amikedo, soleno kreita de Esperantistoj por instigi konaktojn inter homoj trans landoj kaj kulturoj. 21. februaro estas observata de UNESKO kiel La Internacia Tago de la Patrina Lingvo, por antau(enigi lingvan kaj kulturan diversecon kaj multlingvecon. Kompreneble, Esperanto, kiel politike kaj kulture neu(trala pontolingvo, estas jam delonge amiko de lingvaj malplimultoj per la disigado de ties beletraj^oj, kaj povus helpi gardi ilin de esti subterigataj de la kulturs^arg^itaj rulpremiloj de majoritataj nacilingvoj. Fine, c^i tiu sezono estas bonega okazo por festi la inau(guron de nia nova Prezidanto, Barack Obama! NOTU: Raportisto de The Washington Post vers^ajne c^eestos kaj raportos pri la bankedo, do bonvolu peni veni kaj pligrandigi la c^eestantaron! BONVOLE SCIIGI Jim Ryan telefone (703-317-9779) au( retpos^te (quillpower at cox.net) kiel eble plej baldau(. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090124/6d7bd896/attachment.html From davegaines at aol.com Sat Jan 24 13:47:54 2009 From: davegaines at aol.com (David Gaines) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:47:54 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Nova retejo Message-ID: Nur mallonga mesa?eto por sciigi miajn gekolegojn, ke mi jam havas tute novan retejon por miaj komponisto-agadoj ?e www.davidgaines.org. Sur la hejmpa?o vi vidos bonvenigan mesa?on en Esperanto kun ligoj al mia Esperanto-simfonio kaj ?orusa Esperanto-kanto (kio gajnis la premion "An-Ok San" ?e la 1995aj Belartaj Konkursoj de UEA). Anka? estas ligo al Ipernity.com, kio estas internacia amikiga retejo, kio haveblas esperantlingve. Mi blogas tie en Esperanto. Do ?is la bankedo, kie mi refoje klopodos membrigi vin je UEA. :-) -David Gaines -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090124/6db255b1/attachment.html From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Thu Jan 29 14:11:36 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:11:36 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Kio okazas socireteje? Message-ID: Lau mia scio, ekzistas 4 gxeneralaj retaj kunvenejoj por Esperantistoj: Amikumu "Myspace" for Esperantists / universala renkontejo por Esperantistoj klaku.net Blogformata socia reto Babilejo.org Chat rooms for Esperantists / por Interreta konversacio ipernity O? (Kunhavigu ion, kion vi deziras, kun kiu vi deziras) Cxu estas aliaj kiujn mi ne konas? Kia estas la viveco kaj relativa valoro de cxiu? Lastatempe mi aktivas cxe ipernity, sed ne vizitis la aliajn dum pluraj monatoj. Mi nun ne kapablas aliri "amikumu". Do cxu iu povas gxisdatigi min? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090129/905feef2/attachment.html From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Thu Jan 29 14:21:23 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:21:23 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] retejo de ESW? Message-ID: Mi memoras plurajn diskutojn pri renovigo de nia retejo. Mi jxus kontrolis: http://esperantodc.org/ . . . kaj sxajnas ke nenio okazis. Kia estas la stato de la projekto? From quillpower at cox.net Thu Jan 29 14:39:08 2009 From: quillpower at cox.net (quillpower at cox.net) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:39:08 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] retejo de ESW? Message-ID: <380-22009142919398725@M2W032.mail2web.com> Fakte la aktiva prototipo de la ESW-retejo estas multe prilaborita dum la lastaj kelkaj semajnoj kaj estas preskau preta por "vivantigxi." Gxi havas suficxe bonajn grafikajxojn, kolorojn kaj funkciojn, kaj gxi estos granda antauensalto por ni. Estu iomete paciencaj iomete pli longe, mi petas. Original Message: ----------------- From: Ralph Dumain rdumain at autodidactproject.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:21:23 -0500 To: membroj at esperantosocieto.org Subject: [Membroj] retejo de ESW? Mi memoras plurajn diskutojn pri renovigo de nia retejo. Mi jxus kontrolis: http://esperantodc.org/ . . . kaj sxajnas ke nenio okazis. Kia estas la stato de la projekto? _______________________________________________ Membroj mailing list Membroj at esperantosocieto.org http://esperantosocieto.org/mailman/listinfo/membroj_esperantosocieto.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Fri Jan 30 15:15:45 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:15:45 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] The Angry Indian's international language Message-ID: Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo Novajoservo http://angryindian.blogspot.com/ "The IIN newswire is an Internet publication of the Intelligent Aboriginal News Service (IANS) which seeks to provide accurate, alternative and under-reported news items to the international Indigenous/Autochonous/First Nations community and others with a concern for human justice and political freedom issues." "IIN editor The "Angryindian" is an internationally recognised Indigenist commentator and outspoken critic of Euro-colonialism in the Americas and abroad. He is also Chief-Editor of the Indigenist Intelligence Review and produces Radyo Inteligentaindigena, the official opinion podcast of IIN." "Language and Coding: Primarily this site makes use of Standard Colonial UK English spelling and a rather limber form of North American punctuation. Go figure. To make information availible to all people(s), we also provide language translation with a special emphasis on Esperanto, the Indigenist lingua franca." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090130/6f98bd39/attachment.html From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Fri Jan 30 16:12:11 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:12:11 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto Cafe in the Village Message-ID: Esperanto Cafe 114 Macdougal St New York, NY 10012-1245 Phone: (212) 475-5400 http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/32896473/ And don't forget this Esperanto bar/restaurant: Esperanto 145 Ave C New York, NY 10009 Phone: (347) 329-4684 http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7098631/new_york_ny/esperanto.html From quillpower at cox.net Fri Jan 30 16:39:00 2009 From: quillpower at cox.net (quillpower at cox.net) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:39:00 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto Cafe in the Village Message-ID: <380-22009153021390178@M2W033.mail2web.com> Mi esperas ke la novjorkaj Esperantistoj vizitas unu au ambau el tiuj. Se estus restoracio au kafejo kun tiu nomo en Vasxintono, ni okazigus niajn kafkunigxojn tie. Original Message: ----------------- From: Ralph Dumain rdumain at autodidactproject.org Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:12:11 -0500 To: membroj at esperantosocieto.org Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto Cafe in the Village Esperanto Cafe 114 Macdougal St New York, NY 10012-1245 Phone: (212) 475-5400 http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/32896473/ And don't forget this Esperanto bar/restaurant: Esperanto 145 Ave C New York, NY 10009 Phone: (347) 329-4684 http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7098631/new_york_ny/esperanto.html _______________________________________________ Membroj mailing list Membroj at esperantosocieto.org http://esperantosocieto.org/mailman/listinfo/membroj_esperantosocieto.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft? Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail From jedmeltzer at yahoo.com Fri Jan 30 19:21:49 2009 From: jedmeltzer at yahoo.com (Jed Meltzer) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:21:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto Cafe in the Village In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <207165.46032.qm@web54002.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I've been to the Esperanto Cafe. Cool as it is, it's just a name. When I went there (several years ago) with a bunch of Esperantists, none of the staff had any idea what the name even meant. On the other hand, on the same trip, we were speaking E-o in a Dunkin Donuts in Jersey City and this guy came up to us and started conversing with us. He had learned E-o in his native Mexico. That's the only time in my life something like that has happened. I'm curious if anyone else has had such an experience? Still, I like the Esperanto Cafe, since it is right across the street from a bar called Banjo Jim's. As an E-o speaking banjo player, that spot is my Shangri La. -Jed --- On Fri, 1/30/09, Ralph Dumain wrote: > From: Ralph Dumain > Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto Cafe in the Village > To: membroj at esperantosocieto.org > Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:12 PM > Esperanto Cafe > > 114 Macdougal St > New York, NY 10012-1245 > Phone: (212) 475-5400 > > http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/32896473/ > > And don't forget this Esperanto bar/restaurant: > > Esperanto > 145 Ave C > New York, NY 10009 > Phone: (347) 329-4684 > http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7098631/new_york_ny/esperanto.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Membroj mailing list > Membroj at esperantosocieto.org > http://esperantosocieto.org/mailman/listinfo/membroj_esperantosocieto.org From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sat Jan 31 03:04:25 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:04:25 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Why Esperanto Is Different Message-ID: Why Esperanto Is Different by Norman Berdichevsky (Dec. 2007) New English Review http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/9560/sec_id/9560 Of some interest due to the attempt to contextualize Esperanto's history, achievements, opposition, and bad press. From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sat Jan 31 02:55:21 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:55:21 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Realistic international pronunciation: a case of Esperanto Message-ID: Interesting research, I wonder how it went: Realistic international pronunciation: a case of Esperanto Author(s): Bourkina Oxana, Victoria Gulida Sociolinguistics Symposium 15 - Papers & Posters 1-4 April 2004 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ss15/papers/paper_details.php?id=494 From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sat Jan 31 03:08:15 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:08:15 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Walkabout between Muzak and Esperanto Message-ID: Another example of "esperanto" as a generic noun: Walkabout between Muzak and Esperanto Mark Kidel Times Higher Education Magazine 8 October 1999 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=157576§ioncode=26 "Cross-cultural mixing can be very creative, as when Baaba Maal hires an Irish piper, or Ravi Shankar writes for Rostropovich, but it can also produce terrible mismatches as well as a watered-down culture of world music, something with a depressing hint of both Muzak and Esperanto." From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sat Jan 31 03:12:45 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:12:45 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Korean literature & Esperanto: the historical link Message-ID: Very interesting research: CIRA: Poetics, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present Grant recipients 7/28/2003 http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/grarticle.asp?parentid=4516 Note: WALTER K. LEW. Visiting lecturer, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Antioch University, L.A.; graduate student (cultural and comparative studies), Dept. of E. Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA. III. Poetry's Use of New and Old International Languages in the Struggle for National Identity and Independence WALTER K. LEW (Visiting lecturer, MFA Creative Writing Program, Antioch University, L.A.; graduate student in cultural and comparative studies, Dept. of E. Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA). As can be seen from the fact that the main Leftist arts and literature organization in Korea during the late 1920s and early 1930s went by an Esperanto title ("Korea Artista Proletaria Federacio"), Marxist internationalism and Esperantists' hopes of providing an easily learned, common language to promote international understanding were clearly joined in the minds of prominent Korean intellectuals during the colonial era. Indeed, the ideals and potential of Esperanto had already been grasped and written about enthusiastically by Korean literati during the early 1920s regardless of its possible synergy with Marxism. There followed a fertile, complex interaction between Esperantist activities in Japan and Korea, Korean linguistics and cultural nationalism, struggles against Japanese rule, and literary translation into Korean of Western and other Asian poetries (Rabindranath Tagore was the most frequently translated poet during the 1920s, albeit from English versions). All of these were crucial to the development of modern Korean poetry. Yet no Western scholarship has investigated the connection between Esperanto and colonial-era literature and there has been no significant South Korean study on the topic since 1976. Lew intends to unearth the history of Esperanto in Korea, which began in the royal court in 1906, placing it within the larger context of the extreme vicissitudes of Esperanto's political history during the first half of the twentieth century, an epic tale of internationalist utopianism and its persecution under Stalin, Nazism, and Japanese imperial rule about which there is only one major study (written in Esperanto and so far untranslated). Comparisons will be made with Esperanto movements in China and Japan. From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sat Jan 31 03:18:46 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:18:46 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] The Rossetta Project Message-ID: Building an archive of ALL documented human languages. Not much on Esperanto: http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/epo/view?searchterm=esperanto I may have heard about this project while attending a lecture a couple years ago at NSF. I'll look up my notes. The speaker mentioned Esperanto. From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sat Jan 31 03:31:24 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:31:24 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] When Enough Is Enuf Message-ID: When Enough Is Enuf: The earnest, oddball effort to reform English spelling. OCTOBER 30, 2008 By CULLEN MURPHY Wall Street Journal Bookshelf review of: Righting the Mother Tongue By David Wolman (Collins, 211 pages, $24.95) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533218527282911.html Prefaces a review on the history of English spelling reform with some digs against Esperanto: "A friend of mine once set out to learn Esperanto, the presumptive world language whose adoption, it was often claimed, would usher in a new age of understanding and harmony. He mastered the rudiments and then set off for a week of immersion at the World Esperanto Congress, in Beijing. I'm pretty sure that he never intended to make a full leap of commitment -- it was more a linguistic version of adventure camp -- but for a few months his greetings consisted of a cheery Bonan matenon ("Good morning") or Kiel fartas aferoj? ("How are things going?"). He also learned to say Mi bezonas tradukiston ("I need an interpreter"), perhaps the most useless phrase in Esperanto. "The notion that by reforming the way people employ language you can reform almost everything else is a durable canard that has survived a thousand years of contrary evidence." And so, to bed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090131/d3e3f207/attachment-0001.html From piateski at alum.mit.edu Sat Jan 31 09:59:20 2009 From: piateski at alum.mit.edu (Erin Piateski) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:59:20 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Esperanto Cafe in the Village In-Reply-To: <207165.46032.qm@web54002.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <207165.46032.qm@web54002.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <63a634da0901310659h70f79e42i5a605720abb2bf2@mail.gmail.com> I was with my boyfriend in Malta about a year ago, and I was approached a random Esperantist. I don't know if he heard me yelling something over to my boyfriend (who was about 20 meters away, checking to see if a bus was the one we wanted), or if was the green star pin on my coat. He was a French guy living in London, on vacation in Malta (like us), spoke Esperanto very well. Unfortunately it was his last night in Malta, so we couldn't do anything with him before he left. I wanted to get a picture with him but was worried it might seem weird and creepy so I didn't ask, but I probably should have. It was really cool though. We all took the same bus over to a neighboring town, spent the whole time chatting. Erin 2009/1/30 Jed Meltzer : > I've been to the Esperanto Cafe. Cool as it is, it's just a name. When I went there (several years ago) with a bunch of Esperantists, none of the staff had any idea what the name even meant. On the other hand, on the same trip, we were speaking E-o in a Dunkin Donuts in Jersey City and this guy came up to us and started conversing with us. He had learned E-o in his native Mexico. That's the only time in my life something like that has happened. I'm curious if anyone else has had such an experience? > > Still, I like the Esperanto Cafe, since it is right across the street from a bar called Banjo Jim's. As an E-o speaking banjo player, that spot is my Shangri La. > > -Jed >