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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><big>An interesting
mention of Esperanto from a non-Esperanto book I'm reading:<br>
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>From <i>Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish</i> by Dovid
Katz: "Thanks the the Internet, the ubiquity of American popular
culture and international communications, English is coming to fulfill
the role that the grand linguistic dreamer (and Yiddish scholar) Ludwig
Lazar Zamenhof imagined for his own created language, Esperanto. The
Bialystok native believed it would be an international means of
communication that nobody would feel is particularly tied to any one
ethnicity and that could therefore unite humanity. But English has now
attained a pan-ethnic status and is becoming the Esperanto that </big></b></font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><big>Esperanto itself could
never become. Internet lingo and the modern mass media "</big></b></font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><big>Esperantize," avoiding
narrow particularities, whether ethnic, political or racial. That is
good insofar as it brings communication and understanding to more and
more people and places, and so long as it does not displace the rich
local, culture-specific vernaculars of the diffuse corners of the
Earth."<br>
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