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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 8 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Reading through this thread really makes me wish Esperanto or some other auxiliary language caught on

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I like Interlingua.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    TBH I don't know much about other auxlangs/conlangs besides Esperanto. What makes you prefer Interlingua?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I prefer Interlingua because it is comprehensible right from the start if you speak a Romance language and I imagine it is sufficiently comprehensible for an English speaker. There's this saying that it is "a language you already know but have never learned". This is done through more natural semantics and syntax.

    About this following part, I'm not sure, but I've heard they also call it "the modern Latin". As I understand it, in order to be decipherable to all Romance languages speakers, it employs old Latin roots (with variations). The cool part, in case this is correct, is that we all know some of these words via science, arts, philosophy... (aqua, caelum, ovum...).

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    This kinda reminds me of Interslavic. It's the same thing, but for slavic languages. As a speaker of one, I truly do understand interslavic without having ever learnt it. I think these things oight to be used more internationally, although I guess English will always rightly have the crown of the lingua franca

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 months ago

    Looking at examples online, it is surprisingly easy to understand! I can see it being better than Esperanto for romance language speakers specifically, but it still seems to me like Esperanto would be a better auxiliary language due to the simpler grammar rules and no fixed word order

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  • [โ€“] [S] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Isnt that english?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you mean "is Esperanto English", the answer is no, they're pretty different, Esperanto combines elements of latin and slavic languages. If you mean "Isn't English already an auxiliary language", the answer is also no. English is a lingua franca, not an auxiliary language.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 months ago

    Esperanto is a romance-adjacent language using the Roman alphabet. It has its own grammar and phonetics, with rules that are flexible enough that a word-for-word translation from English or German will have a fairly correct sentence structure. As someone who speaks English, knows a little French, and has heard German, I expect it is closer to Spanish or Portuguese than English, but it isn't just like those, either.

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