Re:Switzerland's mysterious fourth language
by zephyrfalcon on Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:11PM
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> a huge number of problems on this planet stem from the fact that people speak different languages and profoundly fail to understand one another
That was the original thought behind Esperanto... the idea was that there was strife between different groups of people because they speak different languages, and that a universal language would solve this (or at least bring them closer together). [1] Whether this worked out or not is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
That was the original thought behind Esperanto... the idea was that there was strife between different groups of people because they speak different languages, and that a universal language would solve this (or at least bring them closer together). [1] Whether this worked out or not is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Creation