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		<title>By: dominiko</title>
		<link>http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2009/11/08/for-those-interested-in-esperanto/comment-page-1/#comment-57</link>
		<dc:creator>dominiko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spanish Dilettante wrote:

&gt; Here in the States, it seems to have been eclipsed
&gt; by another constructed language–Klingon. 

This is a myth. The number of people who can speak
Klingon fluently is tiny.  According to wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
... only 12 people could speak it in 1996 and I 
doubt it has changed much. Even Marc Okrand,
the creator of Klingon, does not speak it.  The
number of people who speak Esperanto fluently is hard
to assess, but it is in the thousands at least.  Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_language says
that it might be between 100,000 and 2 million. I think
it&#039;s in the lower range, but in any case, it&#039;s not in the
same league as Klingon. Just compare the content of
Wikipedia in Esperanto and in Klingon. There are also
many blogs entirely in Esperanto, many software
translated in Esperanto, many web sites available
in Esperanto, etc. I&#039;m not aware of anything
equivalent in Klingon. The web site http://www.lernu.net
which is dedicated to teaching Esperanto has over
80,000 registered users. There is quite a fair number
of books also available in Esperanto, but don&#039;t there
is much literature available in Klingon, or at least
not on planet earth :-)  Qapla&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spanish Dilettante wrote:</p>
<p>&gt; Here in the States, it seems to have been eclipsed<br />
&gt; by another constructed language–Klingon. </p>
<p>This is a myth. The number of people who can speak<br />
Klingon fluently is tiny.  According to wikipedia&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language</a><br />
&#8230; only 12 people could speak it in 1996 and I<br />
doubt it has changed much. Even Marc Okrand,<br />
the creator of Klingon, does not speak it.  The<br />
number of people who speak Esperanto fluently is hard<br />
to assess, but it is in the thousands at least.  Wikipedia<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_language" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_language</a> says<br />
that it might be between 100,000 and 2 million. I think<br />
it&#8217;s in the lower range, but in any case, it&#8217;s not in the<br />
same league as Klingon. Just compare the content of<br />
Wikipedia in Esperanto and in Klingon. There are also<br />
many blogs entirely in Esperanto, many software<br />
translated in Esperanto, many web sites available<br />
in Esperanto, etc. I&#8217;m not aware of anything<br />
equivalent in Klingon. The web site <a href="http://www.lernu.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.lernu.net</a><br />
which is dedicated to teaching Esperanto has over<br />
80,000 registered users. There is quite a fair number<br />
of books also available in Esperanto, but don&#8217;t there<br />
is much literature available in Klingon, or at least<br />
not on planet earth <img src='http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />   Qapla&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Spanish Dilettante</title>
		<link>http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2009/11/08/for-those-interested-in-esperanto/comment-page-1/#comment-54</link>
		<dc:creator>Spanish Dilettante</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I stumbled across your blog today, and I&#039;ve been amazed cycling through your posts...how do you keep all these languages straight in your head? Bravo! Do you think that Esperanto is on the rise again? Here in the States, it seems to have been eclipsed by another constructed language--Klingon. The city I live in, for instance, currently has a Klingon-language production of &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot; playing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I stumbled across your blog today, and I&#8217;ve been amazed cycling through your posts&#8230;how do you keep all these languages straight in your head? Bravo! Do you think that Esperanto is on the rise again? Here in the States, it seems to have been eclipsed by another constructed language&#8211;Klingon. The city I live in, for instance, currently has a Klingon-language production of &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; playing.</p>
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