Hello Victor,
> I mentioned briefly this film in my article "Jules Verne, constructed
> languages and Venezuela" (http://www.ma.usb.ve/~vsirvent/esp/verne.pdf).
A nice article, but I'm not so sure that the name of Pere Esperante refers
to the language Esperanto. Wouldn't it be more probable that "Esperante"
is simply the present participle of "esperar", so his name would be "the
Hoping Father"? I'm not sure if that is correct Spanish, since the present
participle isn't really used anymore, but Verne himself wasn't fluent in
Spanish either.
Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Mon 07 Aug 2006 - 09:14:34 IDT
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