
AE 524 – Interview: How Richard Delamore Learnt Esperanto to Fluency Online
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How Zamanhoff Created the Language of the Jewish Dysphoria
Zamanhoff came from Bielestok which is one of the main cities there. He had German speakers, Yiddish speakers, Polish speakers, Russian speakers and they didn't like each other. His idea originally was to try revive Latin. Then after that he's like well I'm going to standardize Yiddish and make that the language of the Jewish dysphoria. So he did all this before he got to uni. While he was creating these languages but obviously he didn't have a job because he was at home you know living with his folks. Well I guess that was before Xbox's existence.
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