From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Fri Mar 13 10:46:40 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:46:40 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] CFP: Plotki [FWD] Message-ID: (Any ideas of clever ways of introducing Esperanto into the mix? Note that Esperanto is mentioned in the notice below. --RD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for contributions: ***LANGUAGE*** PLOTKI - the Central and Eastern European magazine is looking for rumours about LANGUAGE to be published in the upcoming edition of its on-line magazine www.plotki.net - we welcome your original text, visual and multimedia contributions. LANGUAGE ISSUE CALL-OUT "Language may be for communication, but it's also for revelry" Calling all language buffs, all non-language buffs, all buff language buffs and all non-buff language buffs...... to contribute to the online roumors of PLOTKI April issue ~ Language DEADLINE: March 20 Seeking text as well as graphic and other media-based submissions revolving around the theme of language. NYELV*????????*LIMB??*SPRACHE*GJUH??*J??ZYK Are Eastern European languages more difficult to learn than Western European languages or is it just a matter of perspective? Are Eastern European languages sexier? Is there a common thread? (Pan-slavs might wish to show some restraint) If English is less widely spoken in Eastern Europe, how does it affect the experience of travel throughout the region? How does communication through language differ in Eastern Europe from that of other cultures? Is more expressed or less expressed through the same number of words used in, say, Belorussian, than in Dutch? Language and cultural preeminence: Am I the only one who is bothered that Polish, Czech, etc are usually listed only after German and French on consumer packaging? Or that Austrian trains travelling to Hungary list notices in English, French and Spanish, but not Magyar? Any other articles focusing on the history, culture, philosophy, psychology or literature of languages around the block (minority languages too! Think Yiddish, Esperanto, etc.) will be very welcome for this issue. A special award will go to anyone who can use 10 Eastern European languages in one single poem or prose submission! Articles and abstracts are possibly very welcome in your own language as well. Please get in touch. Thank you and please pass this on to potential submissive submitters please write to: language_issue at plotki.net Justin Hyatt and Katarzyna Pabijanek ********** ------------ --------- --------- -------- PLOTKI is a project from around the bloc PLOTKI encourages rumour hunting across Central and Eastern Europe PLOTKI is interested in original reports, interviews, stories, research, that cannot be found in other media And PLOTKI brings together writers, photographers and graphic artists from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090313/2b968b6b/attachment.html From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sun Mar 22 02:24:51 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:24:51 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] Haldeman-Julius Esperanto book sales Message-ID: A representative of the Kansas State Historical Society was kind enough to send me a copy of: Scott, Mark. "The Little Blue Books in the War on Bigotry and Bunk," Kansas History, vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn 1978, pp. 155-76. Here's one factual tidbit of interest to us: "Little Blue Books on language skills included Common Faults in English (47,000) and Esperanto Self Taught (17,000)." (p. 165) I think these are 1927 sales figures, from Haldeman-Julius' 1928 memoir The First Hundred Million. I haven't seen this title listed among the Little Blue Books. I see this title listed: Litt, D.O.S. Lowell. Esperanto for Beginners. #465 Esperanto was a popular topic in the radical working class movement of the first half of the 20th century. Our own Mark Starr (1894-1985), originally a Welsh coal miner, pioneer in working class education and advocate of Esperanto, early activist in the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, later Education Director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and signatory of the Second Humanist Manifesto, is one of the better known figures in this history. I have numerous essays by and about Mark Starr in English and Esperanto on my web site. You could begin with this reference book entry: http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/starr2.html For more information on Haldeman-Julius (not an Esperantist, to my knowledge), see: "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture" by Dale M. Herder. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20090322/839273cf/attachment.html From volcheck at acm.org Sun Mar 22 01:45:56 2009 From: volcheck at acm.org (Emil Volcheck) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:45:56 -0400 Subject: [Membroj] mia nova Ipernity TTT-pagho Message-ID: Karaj amikoj, Hodiau mi faris TTT-paghon kun Ipernity: http://EmilVolcheck.ipernity.com/ . Mi lernis ke Ipernity akceptas OpenID for ensaluti. Estas tre bona ideo! Facebook kaj LinkedIN ne faras tion. (Vidu http://openid.net/ por pli da informoj.) Se vi havas Ipernity-konton, bv. sciigi min. Dankon, --Emil -- Emil Volcheck volcheck at acm.org http://EmilVolcheck.com/ From rdumain at autodidactproject.org Sun Mar 22 02:56:17 2009 From: rdumain at autodidactproject.org (Ralph Dumain) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:56:17 -0500 Subject: [Membroj] mia nova Ipernity TTT-pagho In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Mi havas konton cxe Ipernity. At 12:45 AM 3/22/2009, Emil Volcheck wrote: >Karaj amikoj, > >Hodiau mi faris TTT-paghon kun Ipernity: > > http://EmilVolcheck.ipernity.com/ . > >Mi lernis ke Ipernity akceptas OpenID for ensaluti. >Estas tre bona ideo! Facebook kaj LinkedIN ne >faras tion. (Vidu http://openid.net/ por pli da informoj.) > >Se vi havas Ipernity-konton, bv. sciigi min. > >Dankon, > >--Emil > >-- >Emil Volcheck >volcheck at acm.org >http://EmilVolcheck.com/