If you spoke Esperanto but kept it a secret that you understand Esperanto...

[Boojatta]

[Javaman]

1. Not a big fan of Esperanto, I'm more a Latte' fan. nt

[Boojatta]

3. "Not a fan" can mean various things.

2007 marks the 120th anniversary of the publication of Unua Libro, the first textbook for aspiring Esperanto speakers. Invented by Polish oculist and polyglot Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (who wrote under the pseudonym “Doktoro Esperanto”), Esperanto is a language constructed in hopes of bringing people together by overcoming linguistic barriers.

Zamenhof helped spread his creation by translating dozens of works. Not everyone was a fan—-both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler ordered the imprisonment or execution of Esperantists.

Source:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/sep/whatever-happened-to-esperanto

[Javaman]

12. And I guess you missed the joke. nt

[Boojatta]

16. True, but I was also pointing out that similar words have been serious indeed.

[Javaman]

26. um, what?? "similar words have been serious indeed". nt

[Boojatta]

27. The words in question are: "not a fan."

See the magazine article excerpt that I posted.

[Javaman]

29. um, wow. how does one even respond to such oddness. nt

[MrCoffee]

34. Based on the article, it would appear that

"Nice post, Hitler" would suffice.

[Javaman]

37. LOL

it's so hard when people are comically challenged. :)

Cheers!

[Boojatta]

38. I prefer to be called crippled.

However, we can compromise. Call me "comically handicapped."

[Javaman]

39. LOL Cheers! :) nt

[Javaman]

28. dupe

[Dogmudgeon]

2. As a matter of fact, I DO speak Esperanto

Esperanto ne havas nacio.

Ĉi-tiu mesaĝon ŝajnas esti ŝerco.

Ĉu prave?

:evilgrin:

--p!

[wtmusic]

4. Emay ootay!

:P

[Speck Tater]

5. Toki Pona is a much better language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

After all, it only has 120 words. What could be easier to learn than that?

[nxylas]

9. Adamic?

That only has three words, according to the Mormons (pale, lay and ale).

[SoCalDem]

6. I prefer plain old coffee

:rofl:

[Boojatta]

8. Cappuccino Esperanto?

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. Mi ne kashas fluecon en Esperanto n/t

[LiberalEsto]

10. Does Estonian count?

BTW my dad learned Esperanto when he was in his teens or 20s.

[madinmaryland]

11. Eye Spy Esperanto Nationalist and Internationist (all three). nt

[Blue_Tires]

13. win

[Edweird]

14. Esperanto has never been an official language of any recognized country

How could you be a "nationalist"?

[Boojatta]

32. You don't know how much territory Esperanto enthusiasts have their eyes on.

They may have been planning for a long time to occupy land belonging to unsuspecting innocents who have never even heard of the artificial, colonial language from Europe that is known as Esperanto.

Well, it's not yet a colonial language, but you should keep an eye on Esperanto.

[MrCoffee]

35. I'm bullish on Esperanto, it's going places!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Other: Boojatta posts yet another...

:wtf: poll.

[Canuckistanian]

17. George Soros was a "native Esperanto spekaer"

George Soros is the son of the Esperanto writer Teodoro Schwartz. Teodoro (also known as Tivadar) was a Hungarian Jew, who was a prisoner of war during and after World War I and eventually escaped from Russia to rejoin his family in Budapest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers

[Boojatta]

18. Do you think that Esperanto might be the secret language

used for communication by members of the shadowy Illuminati-Vegetarian-Bilderberg organization?

[Canuckistanian]

24. Dunno, but I heard the original Warren Report was in Esperanto

Things that make you go......... :wtf:

[Carnea]

25. It would explain William Shatners career. Nt

[MrCoffee]

33. The Bilderbergers are vegetarian?

Dammit, that completely throws off my Illuminati-Chupacabra-Grey theory.

[otherlander]

19. Then you might be. It depends.

Mostly on where you're from and whether or not you want to be one.

[Elidor]

20. I speak Esperanto like a native

I was thinking about moving there someday.

[Boojatta]

21. Well, some people speak Kurdish like natives...

[Elidor]

23. Exactly

;)

[rucky]

30. Ismon spekee Unamunda.

[readmoreoften]

22. An inactive cell in the Esperanto network.

[Bucky]

31. I would be an Esperanto sleeper agent waiting to be activated by, um, Bertrand Russel?

Esperanto is dum.

[Boojatta]

36. Link to a thread that mentions Russell...

I didn't know that Russell was considered so important.

[Throckmorton]

40. Robb is a dingbat!!! N/T