Raumism en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹaʊmɪzəm/
Etymology
Calque of Esperanto Raŭmismo, after the Finnish town of Rauma + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A conception of the Esperanto community as a self-chosen linguistic diaspora.
Mario Pei, in _One Language for the World_, has a chapter titled something like "The Inefficacy of Movements". He's right to doubt whether something like the Esperanto movement is a suitable vehicle for attaining the goal towards which it aims -- aside from the fact that it generally behaves like six cats dumped into a very small sack, it's also subject to such disruptive phenomena as meme change, since it operates on a multi-generational time scale (Raumism would have been totally unimaginable among Esperantists in 1907, for instance).
1997 November 9, Donald J. Harlow <don@donh.vip.best.com>, “Re: conIAL Structural Type and Vocabulary Size”, in AUXLANG mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu:
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ba раумизм (Translations) · it raumismo (Translations) · ia Raumismo (Translations) · de Raumismus (Translations) · pt raumismo (Translations) · ru раумизм (Translations) · pa ਰੌਮਵਾਦ (Translations) · ko 라우마주의 (Translations) · ca raumisme (Translations) · nl Raumisme (Translations) · bg раумизъм (Translations) · cmn 勞馬主義 /劳马主义 (Translations) · fr raumisme (Translations) · es raumismo (Translations) · eo Raŭmismo (Translations) · uk раумізм (Translations) · be раўмізм (Translations) · hu raumizmus (Translations) · pl raumizm (Translations) · io Raumismo (Translations)