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Every year, hundreds of new titles are published in Esperanto along with music. Also, many Esperanto newspapers and magazines exist. There are full-time broadcasts in Esperanto via the radio-esperanto website; additionally there are radio broadcasts in Esperanto by various stations at certain times of day in certain regions (see AERA). There even exist some Esperanto films. As of July 2003, the Esperanto wiki lists 14 films and 3 short films, including Incubus starring William Shatner.

Additionally, aspects of Esperanto influenced the fictional language Newspeak in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, e.g. the Newspeak construction doubleplusungood reflects the Esperanto construction malbonega. This is unlikely to be coincidental, as Orwell had previously spent time living in an Esperanto-speaking home with Eugene Lanti of the Esperanto-based organization Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda.

In 2001, the World Esperanto Association (Universala Esperanto-Asocio) had members in 119 countries of the world. Every year, 1500-3000 Esperanto speakers meet for the World Congress of Esperanto (Universala Kongreso de Esperanto).

Esperanto culture has a special word, krokodili ("to crocodile", coming from the fact that crocodiles have a small brain and a big mouth), to describe what is considered the inappropriate use of national languages at Esperanto meetings. "Crocodiling" is considered rude because it excludes people from a conversation when they all could be speaking Esperanto instead. It is usually however accepted from beginners of the language since the essential goal of Esperanto is improving international communication.

On December 15December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining. Events 687 St. Sergius I becomes Pope 1702 Forty-seven ronin, formerly in the service of Asano Naganori, assault the household of Kira Y ( L. L. Zamenhof'sLudovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof ( December 15, 1859 April 14, 1917) was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken planned language to date. His native languages were Russian and Yiddish, birthday), Esperanto speakers around the world celebrate Zamenhof DayDecember 15 Zamenhof Day Zamenhofa Festo is the birthday of L. Zamenhof, the initiator of Esperanto. Many Esperanto speakers will buy an extra Esperanto book around this time of year and there are also special Esperanto gatherings (parties) throughout the, sometimes relabelled Esperanto Book Day, which might easily turn into World Esperanto Day in the future.

The poem La EsperoLa Espero ("the hope") is a poem written by L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), the initiator of the Esperanto language. The song is often used as the anthem of Esperanto, and is now usually sung to music composed by Felicien Menu de Menil. by the Esperanto band, Ak is generally considered to be the Esperanto anthemFor the novel by Ayn Rand, see Anthem (novel). An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. The term has evolved to mean a song of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a certain group of people, as in the. It speaks of the achievement of world peace, "sacred harmony" and "eternal blessing" on the basis of a neutral language. Nonetheless Esperanto speakers may or may not agree whether the stated benefits could in fact be achieved in this way. At the first Esperanto congress, in Boulogne-sur-MerBoulogne-sur-Mer is a city and commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais departement of which it is a sous-prefecture''. It is located by the English Channel. Population (1999): 45,508. History Originally named Gesoriacum by the 4th century Boulogn in 1905, a declaration was made which defined an "Esperantist" merely as one who knows and uses the language "regardless of what kind of aims he uses it for", and which also specifically declared any ideal beyond the spread of the language itself to be a private matter for the individual speaker.