Esperanto and the Advancement of Science

Who are you calling a crank?

Most of the articles I look at do not have bylines, as a result it’s often impossible to tell who wrote the article. The Washington Herald did not include a byline on its January 19, 1922 article on the “present status of international language,” but I was able to identify the writer anyway. The Herald abridged their article from the February 22, 1922 issue of Science (clearly there was no journalism embargo on this piece). The full article was the “Report of the Committee of an International Auxiliary Language Accepted by the Council at Toronto, December 29, 1921,” and the chair of the committee was Samuel W. Stratton.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science spent more than a decade wondering about the issue of an international language. In the 1910s, there were many letters to Science (the AAAS journal) on the inevitability of Esperanto in the sciences. Still, the real proof would have been when the journal was renamed Scienco and started publishing everything in Esperanto. That never happened. I doubt they even accepted a single paper in Esperanto.

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