Lately I have been messing around with Esperanto, which like several other hobbies I picked up as a young man and had to drop when I got married and started raising a family. If you've heard of it, it's probably in the context of "it's a language that everyone in the world was supposed to learn to speak, but nobody speaks it any more" or some such ( Read more... )

Bet you never thought you'd hear a sentence like that.

I started learning Esperanto in my teens and have been messing with it intermittently since. It's an interesting hobby, even if it will most likely never amount to much of anything in its intended purpose as an international language. (I'd like to see it, but I'm also something of a realist on ( Read more... )