"JERKS THROUGHOUT HISTORY"

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L. L. ZAMENHOFF -- The Inventor of "Esperanto•

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In 1887, Polish resident L.L. Zamenhoff devised what he thought would become a "universal language• -- one that would eventually be spoken in every nation of the world. He called it "Esperanto.• It combines parts of words from many different existing languages, including English, Spanish, and French, and uses all of the existing alphabet except for the letters Q, W, X, and Y. Naturally, the experiment was deemed a ridiculous failure. Today "Esperanto• is laughed at in every nation of the world (even third-world countries), and is universally regarded as "the language of fools.• L.L. Zamenhoff -- Ha! Ha! What a jerk.