Word: esperanto
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...such talented younger men as Mark Van Doren, Mortimer Adler and Irwin Edman. To help pay his bills, Barzun and some friends ran a "perfectly legal and honest tutoring mill" called Ghosts Inc. "No subjects were barred. If a retired minister came who wanted to read Hamlet in Esperanto (one did), we supplied an instructor who spoke the language like a native." In 1927, at the time of his graduation, Barzun stood at the top of his class...
...five-lesson course in Esperanto, the "international language," will begin on Thursday under the sponsorship of the World Federalists. The first meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House...
...Although Esperanto is extremely easy to learn, Fuller believes, "You don't hear very much about the tongue here--mainly because the United States is less language conscious than Europe...
Fuller will display several books and some of the 12 monthly magazines published in Esperanto at the first class. Textbooks will be suggested for the course, but not mandatory...
...facts of the matter are (1) that Esperanto is carried by an ideology which is inimical to many things I and my fellow promoters of Interlingua hold sacred, and (2) that I consider the whole idea of a universal auxiliary language impractical and undesirable, including even the electronic version envisaged by Professor Whatmough...