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I was shocked to find TED has its X almost all over the world for some years despite my calling in the previous post . There is a forum discussion in lernu about this topic, the Esperanto TED, but, the discussion did not come to a fine point. Most of them keep saying the TED has the translation of Esperanto. Well, now what I want is to have the other languages translate from the Esperanto TED programmes. Just a search on the google site, I found almost entire ASEAN has the TEDx team and members to do the job for the company TED. Well, the forum discussion have some people who are too clever to know what it is and what it is not. But sadly to say that, those participated in the forum are merely language lovers but not Esperanto movers. They are the pessimistic  Esperanto speakers.

This is not the first time that I complain about the false information in the net, especially the wikipedia. The data in English wikipedia as at 26th of June still put this: Estimates of Esperanto speakers range from 10,000 to 2,000,000 active or fluent speakers, as well as native speakers , that is, people who learned Esperanto from their parents as one of their native languages. The Chinese wikipedia : 世界上估计有一万到两百万的积极活动的流利使用者。 Now look at the local newspaper which reported in my country. It is the same as most of the people would search the web and to see how big is the population of Esperanto speakers.

For many, losing his/her mother tongue is just like throwing away the old towel, he/she can use the new one. He/she can use to the new language and start to adapt to the new culture that the other tribe is using. Losing of a mother tongue language is like losing a big part of land on earth. But many do not sense it. It is the same in Malaysia that many policy makers are trying to take away the land that other people already have for thousands of years.

A decade has passed, nothing concrete action was done post the Manila Manisfesto of Esperanto torusim. I could not get more info of the development of this manisfesto. I wish someone, especially the Esperantists can furnish me with some texts or websites so that I could write about it in the local paper, with hope, to awake the local toursim industry to consider putting Esperanto as a part of their business.

The Rio +20 was over and the konkurso de esperanto in the top ten question was a NIL. I was disappointed that many esperantists did not know about this voting. To my dismal when I got a reply from Stefano Keller that he sent mails to all the Esperanto Asociation in the world till his email was blocked by Gmail. The funny question is the so called 2 millions esperanto speakers where are you ?

I got this from the Eulang at the facebook. Hope the leaders of the EU could consider the low cost second foreign language instead of others. The language lovers may learn more, of course.

It is good to know that there is an Esperanto reading contest. This is called the Esperanto Sumoo .This is not the sumo wrestling. This took me back to my earlier post of Esperanto writing month. The National Novel Writing Month which I took part before I started to learn Esperanto, it really gave me the habit of writing, thus you can read my blogs very often.

Estas esperantisto.

This is the many times that I talk about the Esperanto money --Verda Mono. 

This is not my first posting about the Esperanto sports meet or games. Therefore, I do not have to say more about it. But just to highlight a conversation that I had with a young esperantist. He might be reading this post. Well, I was suggesting to form a Geography facebook group in Esperanto and of course I would like to see the History and others. Though there are groups in sports in Facebook, they are merely the spectators rather than the movers, just as most Esperanto learners know nothing much of the concept of Esperanto being recognised and recommended by the UNESCO.

If you have particiapted the vote of Rio + 20 , I think you should know that the first voting was scribed away due to the overwhelming respond from the Esperantists. But the second one was a bad respond from the video. I wrote about it in the earlier post. Now, the God or whoever, gives us another chance to be in the conference. Have you voted it ? I did but I could not see the results immediate.

I don't know what I heard it correct or not. If it is correct, I could conclude that the last frontier of English language in the world is ASEAN countries. This agrees with Dr Osltle's work of The Last Lingua Franca.... Therefore, the KAEM and UEA should seriously consider to do something about it in this part of the world, especially the East Timur, which would be in ASEAN too. Of course, East Timur is heavily pro Australia. Well, now what the Esperantists world is going to do. Leave the last frontier there to have more bullets for the English speakers to talk about it or get down to work and get it see the results.

I wrote about this hope in the past. I am still dreaming of FEA.

After commenting in his blog post , I felt a little regrets. I saw this line post my comment as I thought it is going to be poll. Well, it is the poll, but for who ? Him, personally ? These results strike me as ridiculously useless, but Intelligent Life got over 11,000 responses to this poll, so I’m going to do a poll too, and hopefully all those outraged Esperanto lovers will bring plenty of traffic to this blog, and send me hate mail in Esperanto, or worse, carefully crafted and thoughtful essays on the value and importance of Esperanto, which is much more annoying. Till now, many people still doubt about Esperanto. Well, the UNESCO must be a useless body in the world as the recognition and recommendation of this world body are not being respected by the many in the world. Is UNESCO only a rubber-stamp organisation?

How true it is, I did not know. But, I remembered someone from the Esperanto Chicago posted in a comment saying that Esperanto can help the autism kids learn to communicate with people.

I was reading an advertisement which appeared on the Facebook. The training session was in Hong Kong. It was about NGO worker training.

Well, it is again the Esperantists would have to face and the fight will be going on. I just told a friend that English is the killer of the mother tongue. She knows neither English nor Esperanto. To her, Esperanto is too difficult because the accusative is too much to handle. She learnt a lesson and forlasis . Another friend, he learn for a week and he could construct the Esperanto simple tense: Kien vi iras ? Thus, I concluded not to follow her fb account. It is nothing personal but just feel sad that she could not overcome that accusative. I am still facing that accusative problem now. Thus, update me to see whether the Esperantists in the EU would take the legal actions if they have the evidence of what the said : Consequently, the EU Treaties do not confer the power to the Commission to propose the legal act requested. Should you wish to appeal against this decision, we would like to draw your attention to the means of redress available. You may either: - bring proce...

The called themselves 'Translator without border' but I would call them 'wasting time and money without sense'. They put themselves in a very much glamorous position, read: Knowledge is power. It saves lives, lifts people out of poverty, ensures better health and nutrition, creates and maintains economies. Access to information is critical. Language barriers cost lives. Certainly, I don't denied their efforts and slogan of the above. But how many of them can ready accept the Esperanto as a world language ?

This report made me to think of the declining of the language in most languages which has imported the English words, perhaps Latin too. In Malaysia, the Malay language is losing its beauty. But most of the people, especially the Malays are not realising but they think it is good. Just as Indonesian, also have lost the Malay language.