Guys, it’s time to learn Esperanto.

    • bossito@lemmy.worldOP
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      53 minutes ago

      Language history shows that dramatic changes can happen at any moment. Languages can even return from the dead… If the situation with the US spoils to the point of US culture becoming disgusting to the average European… There’s no emotional attachment to English, and most Europeans speak it poorly. You can start speaking basic Esperanto within days.

  • erebion@news.erebion.eu
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah, let’s replace English with something European. Let’s use Cornish, it’s more European than English. *g*

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      60 minutes ago

      The English most Europeans learn and try to speak and feel familiar with is made in the USA.

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    8 hours ago

    If I had to chose, I would rather speak Latin: amazing collection of work available to read from, and to discuss about.

    But as others have mentioned English is not a US made language and they certainly do not own it. English comes from Britain but its rooted in old Germanic language. It’s also a mix of a few other languages (including my own French… which is also a mix btw).

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      7 hours ago

      maybe spanish as it has the most speakers around the world?

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    7 hours ago

    The language where a woman is a female man? I mean, no natural language is perfect but probably there are better constructed ones.

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      1 hour ago

      That’s not true. There is a femine sufix, but that doesn’t equate to “feminine man”. There are also alternatives within Esperanto, by very far the most popular constructed language with an unmatched number of speakers and cultural production. Persecuted by Nazis, soviets or the Iranian Islamic gusrds, it’s also a language with an incredible history of resistance. Very ironic (and very telling) that you try to take it down with some woke nonsense.