Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it

Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by SlowRobotAhead on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:56PM (#18689464)

Saw this a lot in Indonesia and Malaysia where specially “manglish” is common. They have a need for English, but not all the rules.

Cognates sometimes take their more obvious English phonetic spelling.

Issue with those two languages specifically is they don’t have great past present and future tenses. “I have a car” and ^“I had car”* are initially similar and you need to differentiate later, “I have a car but I sell it, so I won’t drive you”. so English with its tenses is important - but “P as in pterodactyl” isn’t.

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by inawarminister on Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:21PM (#18691070)

Eh? Pernah (had) and dulu (before) are our modifiers to make past tenses, and so is akan for future tense (the exact same usage as will, and less confusing!)

Indonesian English is only used by a few people (mostly urban youngsters), but from what I know Manglish is common because some Malaysians refuse/don't see the point in learning Malay, which is sad...

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by SlowRobotAhead on Saturday December 15, 2018 @08:58PM (#18691356)

I don’t speak it, so IDK. It was just explained to me that tenses weren’t always there. But, that was explained to me by a primarily English Malay speaker which - goes to the topic you mentioned which is sad.

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