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I made notes on the radio broadcast, which I will type up when I get a
chance. The discussion was quite respectful towards Esperanto and towards
the whole realm of artificial languages. Two musical interludes featured
a punk rock song in Esperanto (the title or the group was
"Esperanto-Desperado") and an Esperanto rendition of "Send
in the Clowns" by Alberta Casey (whom I recall meeting some decades
ago).<br><br>
See also two new articles on my blog:<br><br>
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<a href="http://gxirafo.blogspot.com/2009/06/aktualaj-filozofiaj-lingvoj.html">
Aktualaj Filozofiaj Lingvoj</a> </b></h3>and<br><br>
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<a href="http://gxirafo.blogspot.com/2009/06/louis-couturat-leibniz-international.html">
Louis Couturat, Leibniz, & international languages</a> <br><br>
</b></h3>At 09:18 PM 6/1/2009, Ralph Dumain wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">This is being broadcast now on
WAMU.<br><br>
I missed the beginning, but the topics I've heard, aside from questions
on the origin and diversity of natural languages, are the longevity of
artificial languages, dating back to Hildegard von Bingen, and
discussions of Klingon and Esperanto with spoken examples.<br><br>
At 04:46 PM 6/1/2009, Ralph Dumain wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Tom Ashbrook's <b>On Point</b>
radio program features a broadcast "Dreaming of a Perfect
Language", an interview with <b>Arika Okrent</b>, author of <i>In
the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets,
Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect
Language</i>:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/06/invented-languages" eudora="autourl">
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/06/invented-languages</a><br><br>
See also the web site for Okrent's book (including excerpts):<br><br>
<a href="http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/</a><br><br>
Interlinguistics and conlangers in popular culture, whoopee!<br><br>
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