daggermoon@lemmy.world to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoEsperanto II - The unnecessary sequel to everyone's favorite artificial languageen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down11
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minus-squareRogue@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoEveryone likes the idea of Esperanto but nobody can be fucked with learning a language nobody else presently uses. Especially since we English have somehow managed to blunder and bludgeon our language so widely across the world that it’s just accepted as a default.
minus-squaredumpleslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI was just going to say I love the idea of learning Esperanto but why and where would I ever learn it.
minus-squaretrxxruraxvr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI learned a bit, but in the end i found interlingua much more interesting. If you learn interlingua you can speak to native speakers of all the Latin derived languages at a basic level at least.
minus-squaredumpleslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSounds much more useful than a language that no one speaks
Everyone likes the idea of Esperanto but nobody can be fucked with learning a language nobody else presently uses.
Especially since we English have somehow managed to blunder and bludgeon our language so widely across the world that it’s just accepted as a default.
I was just going to say I love the idea of learning Esperanto but why and where would I ever learn it.
I learned a bit, but in the end i found interlingua much more interesting. If you learn interlingua you can speak to native speakers of all the Latin derived languages at a basic level at least.
Sounds much more useful than a language that no one speaks