"What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?"

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Source : Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.114, Spiegel & Grau

Arika Okrent

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