Re:From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Interne...
by throwaway7645 on Monday December 26, 2016 @03:42PM
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I'm learning Esperanto and it is extremely easy to learn as everything is regular (that I've seen so far)and no trilling "r's"...etc. English has so many gotchas and exceptions. English has become a lingua franca only because of economics. French used to be for the same reason. Esperanto would be far more natural though and even ease communications at the UN. Everyone has just one language to translate to.
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Re:From Esperanto to ET: Artificial Languages in the Interne...
by skriticos2 on Monday December 26, 2016 @05:13PM
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I heard this opinion before.. but I also speak Hungarian from birth and a tiny bit Japanese (out of hobby). English is rather simple. Not as simple as Esperanto mind you, but simple enough (comparatively) that it beats most alternatives that don't try to bootstrap something new. Also, Hungarian has a lot of rolling "r's", so I wouldn't complain about English in this respect ever.. really.
Esperanto has it's perks though, so I do encourage you to learn it. It makes learning other languages that much easier and the community is nice and global, though somewhat eccentric. ;)