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I have brought together here the most important defects 

 in Esperanto, the removal of which formed one of the tasks 

 of the Delegation Committee. The knowledge of these 

 imperfections does not prevent me from recognising the 

 meritorious services of Zamenhof, who, at a time when the 

 question of the best construction of an international language 

 was not seriously discussed, succeeded in producing one 

 which was in many respects superior to the attempts of that 

 time, and which has proved in practice a serviceable, though 

 very imperfect, means of international communication. 



OTTO JESPERSEN. 



and A. Leskien, Zur Kritik der Kiinstlichen Weltspractien, 1907; Couturat and 

 Leau, Conclusions du Rapport, 1907 ; L. Couturat, Etude sur la Derivation 

 en Esperanto, 1907 ; Ido, Les Vrais Principes de la Langue Auxiliaire, 1908 ; 

 many articles in the periodical Progreso, 1908 ; F. Borgius, Warum, ich 

 Esperanto verliess, 1908. 



