Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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About 30 men were present at the first meeting of the Esperanto Club yesterday afternoon. Text books of Esperanto grammar were distributed, and Mr. J. F. Twombly '94 explained the structure of the language. The grammar is very easy, and a few weeks of study will suffice to master the vocabulary. Very few of the words are new, but are taken from the English and the languages of continental Europe. A man who speaks English and German, French, or Spanish can read Esperanto fairly well. Esperanto literature and any information about the language can be obtained from...
...College in the class of 1684, who had doubtless been a pupil of Corlet's, and was, in 1687, continuing his studies in Cambridge as a graduate. He afterwards became a minister, and was ordained in Roxbury as the colleague of the Apostle Eliot. Corlet taught the grammar school in Cambridge for nearly fifty years...
...Folwell '08, fullback, prepared at the Havenford Grammar School. He is 21 years old, 5 feet 10 inches in height, and weigh 182 pounds...
...language that has grown naturally is always hard to learn. Is it possible to construct an artificial language? Many linguists feel that such a thing is impossible, but the international method of writing music disproves this. In all grammar there is a great deal of unnecessary repetition which makes a language likely to be mishandled. Such words as "telegraph" and "volt" can be understood in many countries at the present time. It is possible then to construct a language the vocabulary of which will already be partly understood. The present difficulty is to select one language and to make...
Esperanto, the best known of the artificial languages, was invented by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, a Russian. The Esperanto grammar can be learned in less than half an hour, and the vocabulary in a month or six weeks. Anyone reading Esperanto at sight can understand a large proportion of it. The key to the language can be mailed with a letter so that the recipient of the letter may be sure of getting its entire meaning. Over half a million people are now able to speak and write Esperanto. At a recent Congress of "Esperantists," people from 20 different nations...