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We’re so thrilled! We’ve been mentioned in the design portal Konigi! A big shoutout is due to the design genius from New York, Michael Angeles, the self-confessed information geek behind this year-old project. Konigi is basically a gallery of designs that takes you to a world you may not have wandered into before. It’s a virtual candy store for design aficionados, with the screen shots of the websites as the merchandise. Only better: It’s for free. But no, Konigi is not taken from Japanese mountain where the Goddess of Sun, Amaterasu’s sanctuary is located. Rather, it’s a “nonsensical riff” on the Esperanto word “koni”, which means, “to know”, according to the website’s creator. Now you know. To satisfy our curiosity, we’ve searched further and we also learned that Esperanto is an obscure language that dates as far back as the late 19th century. It’s mostly spoken by Jewish people and was banned during the time of Hitler in Germany and Stalin in Russia. But that’s for a separate thesis paper.
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Esperanto is not “obscure” :-P
“It’s mostly spoken by Jewish people”
Maybe it was mostly spoken by Jewish people *before* Hitler and Stalin. :(
Visit http://www.esperanto.net
It was interesting to see the mention of Esperanto. Your readers may gain from this the idea that Esperanto is something historical or experimental. In fact this planned second language is spoken by a growing population of people across the world.
Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net
I hope you do find time to give Esperanto the attention it deserves. It is far from obscure!
BTW konigi is Esperanto for “to make known”.
koni is to know.
Esperanto systematically uses suffixes and prefixes to adjust the basic meaning of the root.
I speak esperanto and I am not a Jew but a Swede
Napokapo!
1. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
2. A cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root.
3. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
There are lots of links you should reed
http://chenero.googlepages.com/index.html
Have a good time all you napokapoj!
inga j
“you should read”, my mind was in esperanto for a moment.
Pardon me.
There is no doubt that ignorance, rather than prejudice is holding Esperanto back.
This is why I ask you to view.
http://.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU
Don’t know where you “searched” to come up with those rather bizarre tidbits of info on Esperanto, but I guess it wasn’t this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
When/if you ever get around to that separate thesis paper you mentioned, you might like to explore the 7 points of the Prague Manifesto:
http://lingvo.org
and/or try listening to one of the daily Esperanto broadcasts from Radio Polonia:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/eo/
Esperanto is not “mostly spoken by Jewish people”. Its creator was Jewish, though, which might be why Hitler and Stalin considered Esperanto the language of jews and spies.
The wikipedia page on esperanto has a good overview of the language if you’re interested. :)
http://.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU
you should add www
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU
thanks a lot for all the informed comment. we’re not properly schooled when it comes to Esperanto. We must admit our knowledge is superficial…but with all the discussion, we’ve become really curious and eager to know more about it.
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