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Esperanto: International Language
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The Esperanto language is still relatively marginal in anarchist circles, but it does not take much searching before one can turn up evidence of its influence still today. The popular anarcho-communist site Anarkismo.net " uses the esperanto translation of anarchism to indicate that we want this site to become truly global and multilingual." [1].
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Esperanto has been used in a number of films and novels. Typically, this is done either to add the exoticness of a foreign language without representing any particular ethnicity, or to avoid going to the trouble of inventing a new language. The Charlie Chaplin film
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Esperanto is often used to access an international culture, including a large corpus of original as well as translated literature. There are over 25,000 Esperanto books (originals and translations) as well as over a hundred regularly distributed Esperanto magazines
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The original draft, written by the committee's rapporteur Gianfranco Dell'Alba, included a clause mentioning Esperanto as a possible pivot language in the European Parliament. However, a subsequent amendment to remove this reference was narrowly passed by 14 votes to 12. The lobbying of MEPs is now aimed at reinstating this reference to Esperanto.
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A declaration endorsed by the Esperanto movement in 1905 limits changes to Esperanto principle. That declaration stated, amongst other things, that the basis of the language should remain Fundamento de Esperanto ("Basis of Esperanto", a work by Zamenhof), which is to be binding forever: nobody has the right to make changes to it. The declaration ... permits new concepts to be expressed as the speaker sees fit, but it recommends doing so in accordance with the original style.
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There are books and magazines written in Esperanto, and much literature translated into Esperanto from other languages. This includes famous works like the Bible and plays by Shakespeare, as well as less famous works which do not have English translations.
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