Hopeful Esperantists [Corrected 08/24/06] ; Several Mainers Still Converse Regularly in an Artificial, Universal Language.
Portland Press Herald › August 24, 2006
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No one around William Harris speaks Esperanto. Not his wife, his neighbors, really anyone he knows in Portland.
Once hoped by devotees to become the world's second language, Esperanto has seen its popularity ebb over the last century. Rarely is the invented language heard by the greater public outside of the incidental use in a science-fiction flick.See the full content of this document
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Hopeful Esperantists [Corrected 08/24/06] ; Several Mainers Still Converse Regularly in an Artificial, Universal Language.
But the language is so special to its estimated 100,000 to 2 million users worldwide that Esperantists will go to whatever lengths they can to speak the language.
Every week, the former computer progr...See the full content of this document
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