La Mondo Ne Havas Atendejon: Esperanto Moves Ahead - Page 2
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A wealth of miscellany
Two traditional paper magazines provide worthwhile, not-about-Esperanto reading online. Belgium's Monato, a venerable Esperantist institution, offers a range of short pieces running the gamut from the recent discovery of possibly the world's oldest writing system, to tourism in Venezuela's Orinico Delta, to the Celtic tree zodiac. From the other side of the planet, the technically-oriented El Popula Chinio dishes up an extensive natural history of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province, and an equally studious review of rural development in mainland China.
Esperanto has attained impressive scope in the Net Age. Stefano Kalb's online Enciklopedio is among the best available in any language, while a Vietnamese essay on temple architecture and an Argentine one on naturopathy are thorough enough to appear in the bibliography of undergraduate term papers.
For my project, I've found several world agriculture sites containing information unavailable elsewhere. The Monda Fonduso de Solidareco Kontraû la Malsato, a Third World development organisation, maintains one of the liveliest, while W F Pilger's Esperanto-keyed multilingual glossaries of crops, insects, and other life-forms of northwest Europe is a rich source of keywords.
Religious movements have been prominent in Esperanto since its 19th century beginnings, and are well-represented on the Esperanto Web today. In addition to the obligatory online Bible, seekers can delve into expansive sites sponsored by Alberta's Interkonsento de Gaia Eklezio (Wiccan); Iboga, an African religion bearing a resemblance to Vodoun and Rastafari; and Korea's Sotesana (Buddhist). You say you're an atheist? Gotcha covered.
At the other extreme, I also managed to trawl up Esperanto pornography. While I draw the line at cataloguing URLs, game linguists will find likely keywords at The Alternative Esperanto Dictionary and Kiel Paroli Maldece en Esperanto (How To Talk Dirty In Esperanto).
Ek el!
The list goes on and on. Interested in the music business? There's a site for it. How about an exposé of Imperial war crimes, written by a contemporary Japanese journalist? Or Russian perspectives on British culture? Perhaps gardening is more your thing. Or sure-fire pickup lines.
All I can say is, Esperanto will play an integral role in my research routines from now on.
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