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Introduction
My main interest is the image of Esperanto in public and the perception of Esperanto as an international language and of its language community.
I am putting together public assertions about Esperanto as well as reports about such assertions made in lectures or in discussions.
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Der Autor stellt Beispiele von Reisenden vor, die die internationale Sprache Esperanto sprechen. Das Spektrum geht von einer Fahrradreise von Frankreich bis Ostasien 1928 - 1932 über einen Blinden, der aus Russland kommend in den Jahren von 1912 bis in die 1920er Jahre längere Zeit in England, Japan, Thailand und China verbrachte, zu einem Ehepaar,...
Louis von Wunsch-Rolshoven presents in a very detailed collection of documents arranged according to topics, which false ideas about planned languages and/or Esperanto can be found with some partly prominent linguists also still in the recent past. These are partly minor misunderstandings, partly blatantly untruthful misrepresentations. The author...
This article presents a number of erroneous assertions made about Esperanto by linguists, especially about its practice and language community, as well as some true representations. The collection draws mainly from interviews with linguists appearing in the press, from online discussions involving linguists, and from short mentions of Esperanto in...
Neue Ideen verbreiten sich zunächst oft außerordentlich langsam, weit langsamer, als es die Entwickler und ersten Befürworter wünschen und erwarten. Nur im günstigen Fall trit nach einiger Zeit eine Beschleunigung der Verbreitungsgeschwindigkeit ein.
Der Artikel stellt den Hintergrund dieses Phänomens anhand des Modells der Verbreitung von Innovati...