Thursday, 20 August 2026

I would have been a fan of Esperanto

as Resistance to totalitarian English –
except that it is a naively artificial language
with little scope for nuance or subtlety
and even less for poetry,
born dead and not much more flexible
than Church Latin,
dreamt up by a nineteenth-century
inevitably Indo-European Pole,
with something of the totalitarian about him.


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