Esperanto Stories

[MatthewVett]

Are there any? I just submitted my first story in Esperanto to Literotica, and there's a language tab for it, but for the life of me, I can't find any other stories written in Esperanto on the website. I'm just glad it was an option...

And on that topic, is anyone else here interested in Esperanto? For those unaware, it's a constructed language designed to be as easy to learn as possible. Basically, it's designed for interlingual communication. Rather than spending a lot of time learning Chinese, French, &c, people spend about a tenth of that time learning Esperanto and speaking through that. I like the idea, and it's really an easy language to pick up. It seems not to get much love, though...

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Are there any? I just submitted my first story in Esperanto to Literotica, and there's a language tab for it, but for the life of me, I can't find any other stories written in Esperanto on the website. I'm just glad it was an option...

And on that topic, is anyone else here interested in Esperanto? For those unaware, it's a constructed language designed to be as easy to learn as possible. Basically, it's designed for interlingual communication. Rather than spending a lot of time learning Chinese, French, &c, people spend about a tenth of that time learning Esperanto and speaking through that. I like the idea, and it's really an easy language to pick up. It seems not to get much love, though...

Amurcan is the official language in these here United States of Amurca. If you isn't gonna speak Amurcan, then git yer commie ass outa here before some law bidin citizen kicks it all the back to wherever the fuck they speak 'sperano.

 

[sr71plt]

It will be interesting to see what the readership is here for Esperanto. No reason not to give it a try.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I thought that it was one of those dead languages?

 

[PennLady]

I thought that it was one of those dead languages?

No, it was actually invented/developed in the 20th century by a man who was hoping in part (as I recall reading) to develop a neutral, universal language. It never caught on, although I think it's a neat idea. I've tried learning it myself a couple of times but never had the time to do much.

 

[Darkniciad]

It's the basic premise for the "common" or "trade" tongue that's often used in fiction to explain how you can understand everyone. It caught on much better in fiction than it did in reality *laugh*

 

[MatthewVett]

True, but at an estimated 2 million speakers, according to Ethnologue, it's the most successful language ever purposefully designed, and is larger than many organic languages, as well.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

No, it was actually invented/developed in the 20th century by a man who was hoping in part (as I recall reading) to develop a neutral, universal language. It never caught on, although I think it's a neat idea. I've tried learning it myself a couple of times but never had the time to do much.

Yes, I know. I guess I should have put that smilie at the end of the question.

The last language (spoken) I attempted to learn was German back in high school, yet I have mastered a dozen other languages over my life time (non-spoken), such as Fortran, Cobol, RPGII, PL1/G, Pascal, Basic, C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.

 

[PennLady]

Yes, I know. I guess I should have put that smilie at the end of the question.

The last language (spoken) I attempted to learn was German back in high school, yet I have mastered a dozen other languages over my life time (non-spoken), such as Fortran, Cobol, RPGII, PL1/G, Pascal, Basic, C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.

Sorry.

I did well with language in school -- I formally studied French, Russian and Hebrew. I thought that might translate (haha) to success with programming (plus i was good at math) but, ah, no. I think the right teacher would have helped but...