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  • FrogPrincess@lemmy.mltocommrequest@hexbear.net/c/esperanto
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    27 days ago

    Esperanto has 100× the traction of any of those, though.

    Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, and James Connolly learned it.

    It definitely has flaws, that other International Auxiliary Languages do better on.

    Lingua Franca Nova, Ido, Novial , Lingwa de Planeta, Lingua sistemfrater – all technically better than Esperanto

    Esperanto – way better than any of those for adoption, actual community, a million or 2 million speakers

    To give an idea of adoption:

    And when you compare it to a language like English… like it’s 6× easier to learn than English. And yeah maybe Ido is 10% better than that… but say English is 600 difficulty points, Esperanto is 100, Ido is 90… you’re pretty much fiddling in the margins at that point.




  • FrogPrincess@lemmy.mltocommrequest@hexbear.net/c/esperanto
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    27 days ago

    Esperanto is extremely Eurocentric

    It gets too much shit for this, IMO

    The two choice were:

    • be similar to the world’s largest language-family, so that speakers of that family pick it up quicker

    • be distant from all languages, so that nobody picks it up extra quickly

    The alternative to making speakers-of-european-languages winners was making everybody everywhere losers