Esperanto, the Blue Language, and Mother Tongues

They printed some Esperanto

There was at least one Esperanto speaker in Texas when the Brownsville Daily Herald published an article about it on February 27, 1903, although that one Esperantist lived in far off Brenhan. There are only fifteen Texans who joined the Esperanto Society created by the North American Review in 1907, although Samuel Schlenker (of Brenham) wasn’t one of them. There doesn’t seem to be any indication that the Herald’s article spurred much interest in Esperanto in Texas.

It probably didn’t do much for the Langue Bleue, the proposed international language published by Léon Bollack in 1899. Mr. Bollack wrote that he initially was going to call the language simply “Bolak” (he named it after himself), but decided a better name was needed. It is this language, and not racy talk, that I’m alluding to in the title.

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