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[nishatalitha]

Now, I don't speak the language personally, but I'm sure there are a number of people here who could pick out just why I found this statement to be strange.

A/N: The language, S. speaks with his mother is Esterine's native language, Esperanto.

Again, I am mucking around before I have to go to work at 2pm for 2 hours. I am currently reading a rather bad looking fic, and I am debating giving it up for a) another fic b) filing my papers in my folder c) binding some old printouts of Tamora Pierce fics that I have.

I rather think it'll end up being a), but I will do c) today because the resource center closes at 4.30pm, and I finish work at 4.00pm. I will do b) sometime this week.

Comments

[darthsappho.livejournal.com]

Why strange? Some people do speak Esperanto as their native language - mostly those whose parents were Esperanto speakers with two different native languages of their own.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I am unsure of when Esperanto was invented, but I am presuming that it was since WWII. The lady in question, I presume, judging by the age of S., and the age of my own grandparents, was surely born before this particular war, perhaps even before the one previously.

Hence, my conclusion.

And what maudlinrose said, and the fact that I couldn't actually bear to read the other 10 parts or so of this fic.

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

Sometime in the nineteenth century, actually, or so I recall.

[laputain.livejournal.com]

Esperanto v.1.0 published in 1887 by L.L. Zamenhof, Byalistok, Poland.

(If you were under the impression that it was invented recently, then you should probably come to one of our local meetings, where the average age seems to be pushing 80. It's highly depressing.)

[darthsappho.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that the average age of speakers has _always_ been high.

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

Because the grammar is shoddy?