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touch and though really show the fucking weirdness of English best.
I hate that its the world language. Where did Esperanto go. Its an actually made up language, composed or many ones, easy to learn.
Language sucks. The history of English, German, damn Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, are all so damn weird. And we literally live a few days by bike apart from each other.
Why do there need to be multiple languages really? Its such a barrier.
If everyone would just learn esperanto, we could focus on learning something actually useful, like signing (gesture language). Then we have two languages we can talk with about everyone in the world.
Everyone learning esperanto is a bigger ask than overhauling the spelling of what is already an internationally spoken language.
It really isn't. You're thinking about it as an anglophone, but everybody else already has to go through the effort of learning a new language - it doesn't matter if it's English or Esperanto. The real issue is in porting over everything to a completely different set of rules.
If no-one spoke english as a second language right now, that would be true. As it stands though, hundreds of millions have already learned english, and our global communications and trade infrastructure is based around it. Switching to a new language would mean everyone who currently speaks english needs to learn an additional language.
If we could start from scratch then a constructed language like esperanto would make more sense than using any natural language, but if we want to make a change to the system that already exists, then reforming the spelling and grammar of the language currently in use makes more sense practically.
Fixing english is not possible.
German could be fixed, just remove pronouns and all the stupid rules that make no sense.
But english makes no sense, half the words would need to be pronounced differently.
No need to pronounce them differently when you can adjust the spelling.
God ruined it for us. Damn tower of babel!
La fina venko!
Esperanto's nice but a century old and reflects some biases of that time. If advocating auxlangs, I'd prefer one that aims for a more global balance of vocabulary sources, for example Lidepla, Globasa...
If only there was just one sign language...