XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 1/15/2024 10:29 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > On 2024-01-14, Ross Clark  wrote:   
   >   
   >> This was a very preliminary meeting, held in London. The first General   
   >> Assembly was later that year, in Geneva, with 41 nations represented.   
   >>   
   >> French and English were designated "official" [working] languages.   
      
      
      
   > Makes sense.  French was still the international (well, Western)   
   > lingua franca, but English was rising rapidly, what with the British   
   > Empire and the ascent of the USA.   
   >   
   >> Spanish was added later the same year.   
   >   
   >            Now that's more surprising.   
   >   
   >> There was a formal motion to include Esperanto, but that was vetoed by   
   >> the French. (The league did recommend, in 1922, that Esperanto be   
   >> included in the educational curriculum of member countries.)   
      
      
   >   
   > Esperanto was never attached to any population/culture/etc. that   
   > would have allowed it to achieve critical mass.   
   >   
      
      
      
   is Ross Clark  on vacation?   
      
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