I hate to say so, having myself written "this reply", but there's a better "proof" at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Mandel+Klingon+g roup:rec.arts.sf.written.*&hl=eo&lr=&ie=UTF-8&grou p=rec.arts.sf.written.*&selm=FnB1E0.Jqw%40world.st d.com&rnum=1 (warning: the preview of this message shows some extraneous spaces in this URL -- if they appear when you read this, you might want to take them out).
Unlikely. Based on calculations by Dr. Sidney Culbert of the University of Washington (for Esperanto) and by Dr. Laurence Schoen of the Klingon Language Institute (for Klingon), there are probably on the order of 20,000 times as many Esperanto speakers in the world as there are Klingon speakers. I can't imagine that the ratio in Slashdot would even be as low as 1:1.
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A year of Esperanto gives you a skill. A year of Spanish gives you the option of going on trying for a skill.
I hate to say so, having myself written "this reply", but there's a better "proof" at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Mandel+Klingon+g roup:rec.arts.sf.written.*&hl=eo&lr=&ie=UTF-8&grou p=rec.arts.sf.written.*&selm=FnB1E0.Jqw%40world.st d.com&rnum=1 (warning: the preview of this message shows some extraneous spaces in this URL -- if they appear when you read this, you might want to take them out).
Unlikely. Based on calculations by Dr. Sidney Culbert of the University of Washington (for Esperanto) and by Dr. Laurence Schoen of the Klingon Language Institute (for Klingon), there are probably on the order of 20,000 times as many Esperanto speakers in the world as there are Klingon speakers. I can't imagine that the ratio in Slashdot would even be as low as 1:1.