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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by drugme on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:00PM (#18689152)
A universal shared language for international communication?

In theory, yes - but not in practice.

Which is precisely what the above commenter was saying.

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by em-bee on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:58PM (#18689479)
why not? because not many people speak it?

that would be like saying, phones are not practical because not everyone has one. or maybe facebook or google+ are not practical because not everyone is on them.

but that is a limitation that has nothing to do with any inherent quality of esperanto, only with it's lack of popularity which is something that can be changed without needing to change esperanto itself.

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by drugme on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:31PM (#18689636)
There's a big distinction between "not many people" versus "not everyone".
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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by em-bee on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:27PM (#18689903)
yes, but all of these at one point had not many people use them. if that were a problem in itself, then they would never have become popular.
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