Talk:1894 Esperanto reform project

Is there a record of the exact reforms Zamenhof proposed? I'm curious.

As am I. Mga 22:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, there is such a record -- it's in the book "antauen al la laboro." I have gone through this record in some detail and have given a lecture on the topic at some Esperanto gatherings. It is my intention to convert these lecture notes into an article. If that article appears on the web, I suppose a link to it could be put here. Please note that *no* actual samples of the language exist. The ones you find here and there on the web (including in this article) were meant to illustrate certain provisional ideas for the reform, but no original texts illustrating *all* of them exist. I have composed some and they are part of my lecture notes.-- Thomas Alexander

Whoops, I spoke too soon. I see that the patro nosehere does indeed reflect changes to the vocabulary.I am glad to see that it doesn't include a mistakewhich I made in a version which I posted to the listAuxlang (the word "vulo" is correct, and is not "volo"as I have stated elsewhere.) However, it is not clearto me why "regito" in Z's draft version was changed to"reksito" here and not "regno", as reflected in thegeneral vocabulary proposal. I also suspect that thechange from "in tento" in Z's draft to "versu tento"here is not authentic. Remember that "versu" wasalready a part of the proposal when Z made his draftof the patro nose. Since the draft was intended toillustrate the grammar (and not the vocabulary), thisgrammatical change is at least questionable. "Versu"was presented in the context of the 13th rule andthus seems most applicable to sentences like "miiris Berlinon." I'm curious about the use of "omnudie"instead of "omnedie". I, myself, have given morethan a little thought and research as to which iscorrect without finding enough information to bewilling to come to a firm conclusion.-- Thomas Alexander