# Esperanto **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 4, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676 "2000-04-04T05:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaveoRad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@DaveoRad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveoRad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/1 "2000-04-04T05:52:00Z")
Thanks, Monty, for an interesting discussion of Esperanto ( [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mesperanto.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mesperanto.html) ). There were a couple of typos in the paragraph from _The People’s Almanac_. “Moderno” should be “moderna”. (The adjectival ending is -a. “Moderno” would be a noun, meaning something or someone modern.) “Konsieron” should be “konsideron” (“consideration”). Of course I’m an absolute expert in Esperanto, having taken a 10-week postal course in 1985. ;-{)} Dankon. --Dave (P.S.: This is my first time using UBB code, so I hope it turns out all right.) * * * Life’s a disease… enjoy the symptoms. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/2 "2000-04-05T19:02:00Z")
Sending this one over to the forum for commenting on Mailbag columns… Jill ---
**Author:** ![David\_Wolff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@David\_Wolff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Wolff)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/3 "2004-03-06T03:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=DaveoRad] Thanks, Monty, for an interesting discussion of Esperanto ( [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mesperanto.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mesperanto.html) ). One of the links (to [demon.co.uk](http://demon.co.uk)) is obsolete, but the information is available on one of the other links. The U of Hartford course no longer exists. The SFSU course has moved to Brattleboro Vermont, at the School for International Training. Links for that course and, in general, a good starting point for Americans or other English speakers is the website of the Esperanto League for North America, [www.esperanto-usa.org](http://www.esperanto-usa.org) . Thanks – David ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/4 "2016-02-09T02:19:20Z")
I’m bumping this because I got to see Esperanto “in the wild”, so to speak. Way back ine the beginning of January this year, I finally got around to going inside the Palace Museum in Beijing. For a small fee, visitors to the museum can rent one of those proximity translators (as you approach a particular exhibit, the translator picks up its signal and you get to listen to something about that exhibit. The number of languages available is respectable (I think around 20); one of those languages is Esperanto. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/5 "2016-02-11T01:35:05Z")
mm ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/6 "2016-02-11T01:36:02Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You know, I I concur. ---
**Author:** ![qazwart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/7 "2016-02-17T17:27:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’m bumping this because I got to see Esperanto “in the wild”, so to speak. Way back ine the beginning of January this year, I finally got around to going inside the Palace Museum in Beijing. For a small fee, visitors to the museum can rent one of those proximity translators (as you approach a particular exhibit, the translator picks up its signal and you get to listen to something about that exhibit. The number of languages available is respectable (I think around 20); one of those languages is Esperanto. On a Sunday afternoon, the members of the Esperanto Club met in a classroom for a chance to speak this International Language. After the meeting, they met outside the classroom to speak the real International Language: Yiddish. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/8 "2016-02-18T01:15:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’m bumping this because I got to see Esperanto “in the wild”, so to speak. Way back ine the beginning of January this year, I finally got around to going inside the Palace Museum in Beijing. For a small fee, visitors to the museum can rent one of those proximity translators (as you approach a particular exhibit, the translator picks up its signal and you get to listen to something about that exhibit. The number of languages available is respectable (I think around 20); one of those languages is Esperanto. I’m _just_ geeky enough that next time I’m in Beijing (if I have time) I might consider visiting this museum _just_ to see the Esperanto! Upon further research, I realize that that’s just the museum in the Forbidden City, and I have absolutely no desire to ever get close to that crowd again! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/9 "2016-02-18T01:54:59Z")
> [@qazwart](#): > > After the meeting, they met outside the classroom to speak the real International Language: Yiddish. America’s second language! Well, it seemed like it was when I was a kid, there was so much Yiddish on TV. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esperanto/1676/10 "2016-02-18T14:04:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I concur. Oh. Sorry. I was going to type “You know, I never noticed that Esperanto looked like some mixture of Spanish and English before. Anyone know why?” I can’t remember why I wrote “nm” instead of fixing it. Oh well.