爱的语言：世界语的不灭梦想

The undying dream of Esperanto By Katie Thornton One day, as a sixteen-year-old in the late Aughts, I received an AOL instant message from my friend Kenyon. He wanted to know whether I had heard of Esperanto, the universal language. Kenyon was several years older than me, and something of a mentor. Like me, he was a musician— he engineered my teenage band’s first record— but unlike me, he had a head full of trivia that made him the confidently nerdy star of any Saturday-night gathering of outcasts. His pitch: Esperanto was invented in the late nineteenth century by a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist named L. L. …