The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    ESPERANTO

    Excuse me please; but I cannot take political comment
    anymore!

    I will get back to it I promise! Someday soon.

     

     

    Anyway...

    There was a time when some members of the Intelligentsia decided
    that the free flow of ideas  had something to do with communication problems.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

    I confess that even at the age of 13? I decided this movement
    was crap. hahahahahah

    Now I must admit my own biases, of course!

    I mean I was an altar boy in my youth and I ended up taking three
    years of Latin in high school and happened to add another two years
    of Latin studies in College. 

    Now to this day I cannot read Latin with any efficiency. hahahahah

    ​Although I certainly am better able to see the language roots

    of some English verbiage.

    I just had come to the conclusion that Esperanto was silly.

    Here we already had on this planet a Universal Language of sorts
    in the form of Lingua Latina.

    We are speaking of course with regard to hundreds of millions of
    folks who went to the Latin Mass!

    The Romance Language category related to French, Spanish, Italian, and a
    host of other European languages.

    English is supposedly (or was supposedly) Germanic in origin although
    Latin roots remained in the 40th percentile as to origins?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Early_Modern_English

    But one of my favorite 'histories' of all time involved Geoffrey
    of Monmouth.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth

    This Magister, wrote in Lingua Latina.

    And yet 

    Chaucer wrote in the idiomatic? language of English sixty years and more

    before Gutenberg and yet 

    And Chaucer died fifty years before Gutenberg. hahahah

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg

    Following Gutenberg, Lingua Latina died!

    Monasteries were no longer the primary keepers of knowledge.
    Now England 'conquered' THE SEAS!

    So, for the last three hundred years or so, one could travel the seas
    and find somebody who could translate a message in English.

    And do not get me goin....I mean the Chinese have one basic language
    And according to the numbers, more Chinese speak the same language
    than all of the rest of humanity combined. hahahahahah

    ​It appears to me that Han is the universal language?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

    Anyway, back to Lingua Latina.

    We used to have the 'Romance Languages'; and that idiotic name had nothing
    to do with the reproductive process involved in recreating humanity; but it
    had everything to do with THE ROMANS.

    Again, we have the Italian language and the French language and the Spanish
    language as well as the Germanic languages that could not help but
    adopt so many Latin derivitaves.

    The Esperanto movement was stupid! hahahhahaha

    Anyway, there was no language that encompassed so many people than the
    language of China. hahahahahahah

    NOW WE ENTER A NEW ERA WITH REGARD TO COMMUNICATION.

    One of my favorite films was Judgment at Nuremburg

     

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    In those days, every juror or judge or prosecutor or defense counsel had to wear

    these offal head phones.

    Immediate translations were communicated by third party translators.

    SHOULD I GET TO THE POINT?

    Hell, we can watch any film today with subtitles added to our viewing screen.

    But computer software has become so great that I do not even think that our

    State Department has to even deal with language issues.

    A computer might tell us what ISIS or ISIL is saying.

    Cruz feels he can speak to Marco:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-spanish_us_56c0f58ae4b08ffac125b341

    But it appears that Cruz has Espanol problems. hahahahah

    I am really coming to the conclusion that the more humanity can speak to humanity;​

    THE WORSE OFF WE ARE.

    hahahhahaha

    ​It might have been better if we continued to have some sort of miscommunication. 

    The more we know what other states or tribes are saying;

    the worse off we are. hahahahha

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

    And yet, when Americans decide that they know

    what the 'other Americans' are saying...well

    That is one big problem.

    And yet English is the primary communication device unless, of course

    one is dealing with alligator hunters on the History Channel.

    hahahahah

    If you all do not understand this diatribe, well I cannot blame you

    I GET SO DAMNED LOSTED

     

    WHAT WAS THE QUESTION AGAIN?

     

     

     

    Comments

    Fortunately there is my iPhone and written word apps like iTranslate, and Voice Translator for speech. Esperanto can kiss my Gluteus Maximus.


    hahahahahahhah

    Yeah, I know, IT'S over. hahahahahah

    FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT!


    Language does have it's barriers. Enjoyed this. 


    You know momoe, I have too much time to think. hahahahha

    We live in a different time, a different world, a different universe than we grew up on. 

    Is communication, real communication (understood and all?) good for us? hahhahahah

    Yeah, I am going back two months.

    I just review my old blogs from time to time, as it were.

    But damn, we might conclude that if the enemy really knew what we were saying....we would all be f%^&ked.

    hahhahahaha this song has nothing to do with nothing, It just hit me today