Language Lynching Teddy Bears

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J. Schmid, Official Minister of Bern, Switzerland (as a teddy bear) lynches "Ido." Ido was an ill-fated attempt to "improve" Esperanto. The postcard is written in Esperanto, a constructed language promoted as a world language. Ido has the words "Weltsprache AMT"
[world language AMT]. Credentials listed at the bottom including "Ano de la K.K.K."
[Member of the Permanent Convention Committee]. Artist signed Jean Robert. Macabre, death.
Language Lynching Teddy Bears

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J. Schmid, Official Minister of Bern, Switzerland (as a teddy bear) lynches "Ido." Ido was an ill-fated attempt to "improve" Esperanto. The postcard is written in Esperanto, a constructed language promoted as a world language. Ido has the words "Weltsprache AMT"
[world language AMT]. Credentials listed at the bottom including "Ano de la K.K.K."
[Member of the Permanent Convention Committee]. Artist signed Jean Robert. Macabre, death.
[Macabre: Death, Potty Humor, etc]
[Dolls and Teddy Bears/Art]

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Item Code p9298
Grade 1