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[–] 79 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Note to self: do not make a language intended for global communication by just mixing 3 European languages and taking the hardest to learn features from them.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    What do you mean by hardest features? It's been ages since i looked at Esperanto, but back then I didn't find it particularly hard to learn.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Let me guess: your native language is Germanic, Romance or Slavic.

    Esperanto's phonetics, phonotactics, vocabulary and grammar are all overly Eurocentric and twice as complicated as they should be for a language that is presented as a tool for global communication. And don't even get me started on diacritics.

    Anyone who grew up speaking a non-Indo-European language is going to have a hard time even getting the hang of the alphabet and all the sounds.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I maintain that the most realistically usable artificial global language would be something inspired by toki pona, but with actual effort put into picking words that are maximally understandable and pronounceable by as many people as possible and is designed to be incredibly difficult to mangle beyond intelligibility.

    No even remotely complex rules, nothing fancy whatsoever, just an engineered caveman speech that literally anyone can learn from a pamphlet and reliably use to communicate basic normal things with anyone else. Like the way you end up talking when you just barely know a language and need to communicate "i'm allergic to shellfish, can you guarantee that my food won't have touched any part of an animal with a shell?"

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