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72Land of Invented Languages
I recently read a book published earlier this year: In the Land of Invented Languages, by Arika Okrent (Spiegel & Grau, New York 2009). In general, there seems to be two main attitudes to "artificial"...
11 comments70A Dangerous Language?
Can a language be dangerous? Some think it can. We see some of them just now, in North America among the most rabiate Obama-haters; those who are so far out at the extreme right-wing that they think George Soros is a leftist (which he...
2 comments65What Is a Buddhist King?
After writing two earlier hubs about Buddhism and political power - http://hubpages.com/hub/Buddhist-king-is-violating-Buddhist-ethics http://hubpages.com/hub/Buddhist-Imprimatur - I got a question from a commentator: "What is a 'Buddhist'...
3 comments63Brazilian Schools Will Teach Esperanto
Brazilian High Schools will be able to teach Esperanto officially. The decision was made Tuesday, Sept. 15th 2009, by the Commission on Education, Culture and Sports of the Brazilian Senate. The proposed...
3 comments72A Pecking Order of Languages
Some countries are said to be neutral. The meaning of this may vary; in World War 2, when Ireland was officially neutral, some Irish said that they knew perfectly well whom they were neutral against. Some...
2 comments62Atheism, Buddhism, and Religion
During the latest Universal Congress of Esperanto, in Copenhagen last north hemisphere summer, I visited a meeting with Esperanto-speaking Atheists. The subject of the discussion was "Are Atheists Against Religion?" The question may seem to be...
0 comments51A Forgotten Human Right
It is written in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml : Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and...
1 comment51With Friends Like Bernard-Henri Lévy, Obama Won't Need Enemies
I think Mr. Obama has two great problems. His enemies is one, those who regard him as the devil himself and accuse him for being a Nazi, a Fascist and a Communist (funny combination), and even as someone...
3 comments55Only Polish Spoken
Last summer (2009), I participated in the Universal Congress of Esperanto in Bialystok, Poland. Now I read a short article about a strange incident at the web site of the Polish radio, at ...
0 comments65The Poor Goths
What do Gothic architecture, Gothic letters, Gothic literature and Gothic Metal have in common? Of course, you say; they are all Gothic. Wrong. What they have in common is the fact that they all are not Gothic at all. Just as Vandalism doesn't...
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