Also, I attended a fascinating lecture at the Kirkland Public Library a couple weeks ago about Brittany (including an introduction to the language), the churches and menhirs and locks and whatnot, it was tremendously engaging stuff. The language of the lecture was Esperanto; the lecturer was a French phone-company engineer who was in town for a symposium at Microsoft.

Only about 20 people attended, which is too bad as anyone who knows Esperanto would have found the talk worth the time.

Tonight even as I type, speaking of Esperanto, a venue called Consolidated Works here in Seattle is showing a movie in Esperanto, Incubus, starring William Shatner (his first feature film, I'm told, from pre-Star-Trek days). Most of the reviews I've seen say it's not a great film, so I decided not to waste seven bucks on it. But it is yet another example of the survival of Esperanto, another sort of minority language (and the one I identify most closely with).

Liland