International language known by the pseudonym of its inventor, L.L. Zamenhof
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L. L. Zamenhof - Wikipedia  Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof usually credited as L. L. Zamenhof, was a Polish medical doctor, inventor, and writer. He is most widely known for creating Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in ... When he later studied English, he decided that the international language must have a simpler grammar. Apart from...
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Ludwig L. Zamenhof Biography (Ophthalmologist/Philologist)  Biography of Ludwig L. Zamenhof, The inventor of the language Esperanto. ... L.L. Zamenhof was a Polish eye doctor who spent his life constructing and promoting the Lingvo Internacia -- international language -- known as Esperanto. ... Extra credit: The name Esperanto comes from his 1887 pseudonym, Dr. Esperanto,...
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Esperanto | Define Esperanto at Dictionary.com  an artificial language invented in 1887 by L. L. Zamenhof (18591917), a Polish ... than in the history of Esperanto, one of the world's most well-known invented languages. ... The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto George Cox ... C19: literally: the one who hopes, pseudonym of Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, who invented it.
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Esperanto - Wikipedia  Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. It is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world. The Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof published the first book ... "To render the study of the language so easy as to make its acquisition mere play ... 2.1 Achievement of its creator's goals.
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L.L. Zamenhof | Polish linguist and physician | Britannica.com  L.L. Zamenhof, in full Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto ... career, Zamenhof worked to develop Esperanto and organize its adherents. ... been made to invent and propagate new and genuinely international languages, ... the Polish-Russian doctor L.L. Zamenhof in the 19th century, is the best known.
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Norwegian language - Wikipedia  He called his work, which was published in several ... The name of the Danish language in Norway was a ... After the personal union with Sweden was dissolved in 1905, both languages were...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  May 8, 2010 ... The U.S. equivalent of Italian "frittelle", German "pfannkuchen" & French "crepes". Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Alex Trebek. Springfield, MO.
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - Jeff Miller Web Pages  Jul 8, 2015 ... The OED2 shows a use of this word in a 1741 letter by William ... by the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records as "the longest words in ... No foreign language words, such as German or Greek etc, are listed. 3. ..... In Japanese, the longest word is CHI-N-CHI-KU-RI-N (12 letters) a very short person (slang),...
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Ottmar Mergenthaler - Wikipedia  Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854  October 28, 1899) was a German-born inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg, as Mergenthaler invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. This machine revolutionized the art of printing. ... By 1884 the idea of assembling metallic letter molds, called matrices, and...
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Nynorsk - LiquiSearch  Nynorsk, Neo Norwegian or New Norwegian is one of two official written ... The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century,...
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Chinese Language  EthnoMed  There is also a form called "pin-yin" which is the Chinese language ... but there are also several other major dialects in use in China: Yue (Cantonese), Xiang...
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Full text of "A Kannada-English school-dictionary : chiefly based on ...  Dr. Kittel, the eminent lexicographer of the Kannada language, whose ... These being difficult to trace to their original constituent parts have, of course, ... to mark with the initials of the respective language the words migrated from. .... Before a vowel es be- comes icS*; thus s-e5o;^= w^o^ end- less. ...... A zigzag lightning.
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Gulliver's Travels' 'nonsense' language by Jonathan Swift ...  Aug 18, 2015 ... He claims the author uses Hebrew as the source of the made up words he ... Published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's most famous work had the title ... The book sees Lemuel Gulliver visit assorted remote lands during his adventures. ... the politics of the time and a parody of the outlandish travellers tales that...
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