• MalarchoBidenism [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think it's nice. I like the concept of a universal language that isn't just the language of whichever country happens to be the most powerful at the time.

    It gets criticism for being eurocentric, which I think is fair given that the vocabulary is like 90% romance languages, but then again English is the de facto universal language right now so that criticism feels kinda moot. As long as an official universal language doesn't exist some other language will take its place, so this problem will always be present, and Esperanto is simple enough that I think anyone can learn it easily regardless of their native language, even if some people have an advantage. A universal language without this problem would be poggers, but none so far have appeared and no other conlang has achieved the popularity of Esperanto. I don't even think you can have a universal language that is equally fair to everyone, given how diverse human languages are, though we can certainly try to do better than Esperanto.

    Also, the words for boyfriend and girlfriend literally translate to "heart friend" and I think that's cute :comfy: