About

Bonvenon! My name's Andy, I'm a doctor of artificial intelligence, a bass & guitar botherer, aspiring fantasy author, and long-term Esperanto obsessive.

Long ago (and on a platform far away) my blog began on thusly:

I admit, I have a weird attraction to Esperanto. We met properly a couple of months back, but we’ve flirted for years. And now I’m addicted. So instead of estranging my friends and family by subjecting them to more tales of the wonderful language, I’ve decided to pollute the interwebs with my rantings.

So for the unfortunate uninitiated, Esperanto is a constructed language. It is a gorgeous and strange but familiar language. It has a vocabulary with its roots in european languages, and a mostly familiar grammar but with some significant (and interesting) quirks. It is entirely regular, rules have no exceptions. It is an easy language to learn, but yet so expressive, due to some nifty features of the language.

Over a decade has passed, and we’ve done more than just flirt; we’ve slowly got to really know one another. And Esperanto remains as exciting and beautiful as ever.

The aim of this blog remains as it ever was; I want to celebrate and discuss those aspects of the language that tickle me, and make me want to learn more.

If I get any fact, linguistic or otherwise, about Esperanto wrong, let me know! Or if you just want to practise your Esperanto on me, go ahead in the comments!

By the way, my wife & I do actually parent a grey cat, Emmy, who gives me just as withering a glare as the one pictured below.

Subscribers can check out an app I'm developing for practicing Esperanto with AI characters in random scenarios, solving mysteries and going on adventures.