• Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Everyone learning esperanto is a bigger ask than overhauling the spelling of what is already an internationally spoken language.

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      1 year ago

      It really isn’t. You’re thinking about it as an anglophone, but everybody else already has to go through the effort of learning a new language - it doesn’t matter if it’s English or Esperanto. The real issue is in porting over everything to a completely different set of rules.

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        1 year ago

        If no-one spoke english as a second language right now, that would be true. As it stands though, hundreds of millions have already learned english, and our global communications and trade infrastructure is based around it. Switching to a new language would mean everyone who currently speaks english needs to learn an additional language.

        If we could start from scratch then a constructed language like esperanto would make more sense than using any natural language, but if we want to make a change to the system that already exists, then reforming the spelling and grammar of the language currently in use makes more sense practically.

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          1 year ago

          Fixing english is not possible.

          German could be fixed, just remove pronouns and all the stupid rules that make no sense.

          But english makes no sense, half the words would need to be pronounced differently.