Lojban and Esperanto

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Esperano, a constructed auxiliary language. spero is the Lojbanic root-word for Esperanto and Esperanto culture. Other words are bangrnesperanto and sperybau for the Esperanto language itself. Created by la .zamenxof.

Eseperanto activity is also called green star business (lo crino tartai cuntu).

Lojbanists and Esperanto

Is Esperanto a rival to Lojban? A great number of Lojbanists studied Esperanto before coming to Lojbanistan, but there is little overt rivalry (except on the vexing 'Sixteen Rules' issue...). The situation can be considered as a case of complementarity: International Auxilliary Language claims are renounced in order to focus on issues which simply don't exist in Esperanto.

There was a STS discussion on the mailing list.

  • nitcion:
    • This seems to be primarily an artifact of the peculiar situation of Esperanto in America: the idealism of Esperanto, and the feel for a need for an IAL, do not have as much resonance in America as elsewhere, so there are proportionally many more people who would consider learning either Esperanto or Lojban only as a conlang. (Few outside the Anglo-Saxon world, I suspect (mi'e nitcion) would learn Esperanto only as a conlang). For that reason, the two languages are being compared by some (e.g. prospective students asking for comparisons on the mailing list) rather more directly than others (e.g. Esperantists or ex-Esperantists like me) may have expected, in terms of non-IAL specific issues like unambiguity or euphony.

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