http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/planet-word-ros-na-run Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 03:32:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/planet-word-ros-na-run#post-276476 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:54:03 +0000 Brian Barker 276476@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>Jennygraham <a href="//www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/planet-word-ros-na-run#post-275684&quot;">said</a>:</cite><br /> I have seen couple of episode of the show &amp; let me tell you Stephen was simply outstanding!</p></blockquote> <p>I hope that Stephen Fry will mention the success of Esperanto in his new BBC TV programme when it airs on 25th September. Many ignorant people describe Esperanto as &quot;failed&quot; - other ignorant people say that if human beings were meant to fly, God would have given them wings.</p> <p>Esperanto is neither artificial nor a failure however. As the British Government now employs Esperanto translators it has ceased to be a hobby. More recently this international language was used to address the United Nations in Bonn.</p> <p>During a short period of 124 years Esperanto is now in the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide. It is the 22nd most used language in Wikipedia, ahead of Danish and Arabic. It is a language choice of Google, Skype, Firefox, Ubuntu and Facebook.</p> <p>The new online course <a href="http://www.lernu.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.lernu.net</a> has 125 000 hits per day and Esperanto Wikipedia enjoys 400 000 hits per day. That can&#39;t be bad &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/planet-word-ros-na-run#post-275684 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:20:04 +0000 Jennygraham 275684@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I have seen couple of episode of the show &amp; let me tell you Stephen was simply outstanding! </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/planet-word-ros-na-run#post-256079 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:04:35 +0000 conormcmahon 256079@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I really can&#39;t wait to see this, I was delighted when I heard Stephen would be making an appearance on the show. His enthusiasm for the language is something to be greatly admired. It makes me think that I should make more of an effort with the cúpla focal. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/planet-word-ros-na-run#post-254965 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:41:30 +0000 carrowt 254965@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Stephen will be appearing in the Irish TV show, Ros na Rún, as part of his new series and I for one cannot wait to see it!</p> <p><a href="http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&amp;aid=73&amp;rid=4283503&amp;tpl=archnews&amp;only=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&amp;aid=73&am.....amp;only=1</a></p> <p>It will be weird but brilliant to hear him speaking as Gaeilge.</p> <p>Go n&#39;éirí an t-ádh leat Stephen!</p> <p>(Good luck) &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p>