Een wereldtaal, De geschiedenis van het Esperanto
Marc van Oostendorp
Not so long ago I hacked languages instead of painting applications, and I cannot, in fact, promise that I'll never hack languages again. And not programming languages, but human languages. I've invented quite a few languages for my invented world, the setting of two novels that I'm trying to sell. I've had the languages bug since I first discovered that our school grammar of French wasn't all that well laid out and could be improved upon. Later I learned about Tolkien, about Roland Tweehuysen (but not Mark Okrand -- I never was a trekkie). I joined a club of people interested in designed imaginary countries, world and languages.