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    43 months ago

    Reminder that esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages, having a phoneme Inventory based off one of the languages Zamenhof happened to speak and having an agglutinative grammar that would be unfamiliar and difficult to many people

    • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      13 months ago

      You clearly know much more than I do about it but yeah I always heard Esperanto was a poor attempt.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages

      It’s great as a European communal language for this reason.

      As a bridge to an IAL it’s significantly easier to train and maintain than the current standard of English.

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        13 months ago

        That is true, but it should be branded as such, not as an international language, localized auxillary languages can be great, see Interslavic as an example