Word: esperanto
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NEITHER Franglais nor Esperanto, the words "maigret" and "simenon" are nevertheless working their way into many of the world's vocabularies. Properly, a maigret is a detective story whose hero is a Parisian police inspector by that name, but so many maigrets have been published that the word is now used to describe mystery stories in general. In a stricter sense, a simenon is any novel except a maigret by Maigret's progenitor, Belgian-born Author Georges Simenon, 66. Simenon has produced a total of 74 maigrets and 126 simenons, which have appeared in 43 languages. Last week...
...only languages that have been planned and created ahead of time are Esperanto and various imitations of it, and they are really no better at communicating thoughts than Boonville's happy Boont...
...does not suggest that such a search will find its final expression as a universal religion, and disassociates himself from any attempt to create a "theological Esperanto." He sees, in fact, a continuing pluralism, but a more confident one, in which all religions more fully appreciate the commonality of human experience that unites them and the diversity of approach that mutually enriches them...
...monetary changes through the Group of Ten instead of the IMF. France has given up the idea of gutting the dollar and financing commerce with gold (that idea was intolerable to other nations). And the U.S. has recently grown more receptive to supplementing the dollar with some sort of "Esperanto" currency. Nobody expects quick or sweeping agreement, but compromise seems more likely than it did a few months...
District Court held Lament's case to be moot. In San Francisco last fall, how ever, a Danish journalist named Leif Heilberg won his case hands down in the same kind of court when he sued for unimpeded delivery of a Chinese Communist magazine printed in Esperanto...