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February 21 Language is the soul of a nation… Do you want to make a people disappear? Destroy its language. Jules-Paul Tardivel, L’anglicisme, voila l’ennemi, 1880 Today is International Mother Language Day For some reason the excitement surrounding this occasion is not quite as intense as other more important holidays, such as Talk Like a Pirate [...] February 8
When all the nations stand before the judgment seat and are asked to explain how they used their basic talents…the small Slovenian nation will dare without fear to present a thin book with title Prešeren’s Poems alongside the others. – Josip Stritar Don’t mess with the Slovenes when [...] December 15 Originally celebrated as Zamenhof Day, Esperanto Day is the birthday of Esperanto founder L.L. Zamenhof. He would be 149 today. The son of a German teacher, Zamenhof was born in Bialystok, Russia, in what is now Poland. He spoke all three of those languages as a child, and studied Greek, Latin, Hebrew and [...] |
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