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<BODY id=compText>Thanks. This is quite interesting. A friend of mine who knows Yiddish studies once told me that Zamenhof was mentioned in studies of the history of the language for his efforts to reform Yiddish.<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Jim Ryan <QUILLPOWER@COX.NET><BR>Sent: Sep 13, 2008 10:55 PM <BR>To: Membroj@esperantosocieto.org <BR>Subject: [Membroj] La angla kiel surogato por Esperanto <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"></ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><B><BIG>An interesting mention of Esperanto from a non-Esperanto book I'm reading:<BR><BR>>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><BR><BR></BIG></B></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><B><BIG><BR></BIG></B></FONT><BR></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>