Esperanto, created more than 100 years ago as a universal language, has set few tongues wagging.

Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) | September 9, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Richard Chin

ST. PAUL _ Cu vi parolas Esperanton?

If you have no idea what we're talking about, then the answer is no, you don't speak Esperanto.

If you don't even know what Esperanto is, much less speak it, then let us introduce you to the concept of a planned language, an artificial creation intended to be everyone's second language of choice.

Conceived more than 100 years ago to be easy to learn and politically neutral, Esperanto has been promoted as an international auxiliary language, a global lingua franca, a common currency ...

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