English is burdened with a culture that emphasize empirialism, capitalism, individualism and so on. A culture that ignores climate catostraphy, global inequality and brings disproportionate attention to countries with english as national language. Additionally english is the language of Trump, Boris Johnson, Margareth Thatcher and George Bush jr… Protest the english language by embracing esperanto.
Break language segregation! Today, the world is segregated by language. It is very resource heavy to learn a new ethnic language.
Esperanto is like other constructed languages made to be easy to learn through consistent grammer, phonetics and morphemes. You know how to pronounce a sentence. You can determine the type of word by looking at the last letter. Even if you havent seen a particular word before, the chances are that you can predict its meaning if you know the morphemes. It is estimated that it requires a tenth in time investment to learn esperanto compares to ethnic languages.
The world language is political and it enables english imperialism.
Look up your local esperanto group. Learn it. Talk about it. With collegues, friends, acquantances and family. Engage your local community. Influence!
Some useful resources: Dictionary https://lernu.net/vortaro ActivityPub https://esperanto.masto.host Nice esperanto course: Kurso de Esperanto
In a lot of things maybe. Communicating clearly is so difficult, especially about anything technical. I’d love to see how a lojban-speaking society handles its politics, bigotry, business, everything.
Do you ever walk into a huge argument and realise the whole problem is people’s different understanding of the meaning of a word? There is much more misunderstanding in the world than understanding. And natural language must be partly at fault.
But to get back to the point, having a logical lingua fraca for business and politics would solve a lot of problems. It would also help to preserve dying natural languages.
Nice article, thanks. I didn’t know that example. The one I know is where they play memory games with objects of different colours. For example russian (IIRC, it might not have been russian) has distinct words for dark blue and light blue. English speakers had more difficulty remembering which blue things were light or dark, because they don’t have different words for it.
I might be forgetting some details though. It’s famous though, you’ll find it easily enough.
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good one