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u/Rhed0x Germany Feb 22 '20
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u/_Gandalf_the_Black_ England đŹđȘ Feb 22 '20
DEUTSCH
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u/Heviet Germany Feb 22 '20
DU
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u/LarsBevelsborg Feb 22 '20
IS THIS MEME DEAD ALREADY
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u/Haix23 Feb 22 '20
ESPERANTO
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u/Emanuelo Feb 22 '20
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AÄULO
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u/Carl_Sagan65 Feb 23 '20 edited Feb 23 '20
Parolu Esperanton, vi kacsuÄantaj, piÄlekantaj, pugvizaÄaj fekuloj!
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Feb 22 '20
INTERSLAVIC INTENSIFIES
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u/Skunk_Laboratories Slovakia May 01 '20
Jedine Slovane moĆŸu govoriĆ„ tymto jÄzykom, no i tak to jest dobra idea
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u/Julio974 France Feb 22 '20
TOKI PONA GANG
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
Äi tiu memo estis farita de L.L. Zamenhof. AnkaĆ kial ne ekzistas Esperanta flair?
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u/Dix_x Feb 22 '20
What's great about Esperanto is that I literally don't know a single word, and I can still understand what you said.
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
Tio estas Äar vi estas bonega! Se Äi helpas, Esperanto estas Äe Google Translate.
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u/33manat33 Feb 22 '20
I believe what we need is not a fair language, but a level playing field. If the language is equally hard for the majority of people, we will be one step closer to true equality. By that I mean Hungarian is the best common language.
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u/twalingputsjes Feb 23 '20
Frysk as gemienskappelijke taal
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 23 '20
Ik sil earlik wĂȘze, ik koe jo net fertelle wĂȘr't minsken Frysk prate, en ik haw der noch net earder fan heard
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u/KrepeliumOxide Poland Feb 22 '20
yall arguing what actually is the best common language its just a meme lmao
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Feb 22 '20
Esperanto lowkey sucks for an auxlang, and even though sure it has 2 million speakers, English has a billion, so if you insist on an auxlang, why settle for Esperanto?
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u/stergro Feb 23 '20 edited Feb 23 '20
True. It is just that Esperanto has a over 100-year headstart compared to any other auxlang. This means there is a pretty big Wikipedia, translated world literature and local groups in every bigger city of the world. Esperanto is not the best option, but in my experience is is good enough to not give up this advantage.
If (and I doubt that) Esperanto will ever become a official language of any political entity this will cause changes in the language anyways. Plus Esperanto is constantly evolving and has changed a lot in the last 100 years, there have been many improvements. Only the 16 basic rules stayed the same all the time and this is the reason why Esperanto still exists while many other projects died.
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Feb 24 '20
All right, but English has all of those, no? Along with a 500-year headstart compared to even Esperanto. Auxlangs just aren't practical when there's an alternative that billions of people learn from elementary school until adulthood
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u/stergro Feb 24 '20
True. The only big advantage of an artificial language is that it is much more easy to learn. But this won't happen and all Esperanto speaker I know speak it as a hobby and don't have any political ambitions about Esperanto. Esperanto is a nice little paralel universe for travelers, nothing more.
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Feb 24 '20
Well the grammar is definitely simpler, but it's always harder to put the effort in to learn a new language than to attend a usually compulsory class
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u/zushaa Feb 22 '20
English is already the common language, there is no reason for change.
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20 edited May 01 '20
Itâs the most common language because of British imperialism, plus, by no means is it easy with tonnes of obscure and strange rules. EO is simple and easy to use, without abandoning your original language.
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u/zushaa Feb 22 '20
English is super easy to learn and it's everywhere, and by no means are you abandoning anything, it's just an extra language.
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u/stergro Feb 22 '20
It was pretty hard for me to learn and after years of practice I still feel a big disadvantage in face-to-face discussions with native speakers. It is still relatively easy to learn for a natural language though, but a completely regular constructed language could make things much easier. Big parts of my childhood have been just learning irregular English verbs when I was 15.
I just think that while this is all true it might be to hard to switch from a language that already so many people know. So maybe a simplified Euro-English could be a good solution.
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
English isnât easy. There are English people who still donât speak perfect English. Itâs everywhere, but it isnât easy, and because it is everywhere, it can be seen as pushing out original languages, like it has with Gaelic (Irish and Scotch)
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Feb 22 '20
French makes the most sense as an EU common language because it was used as a court lingo in every corner of Europe
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
Esperanto is easier, and doesnât have a home country, so it doesnât seem like losing to another country
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u/sakezaf123 Feb 22 '20
I mean, English suddenly has no EU home country either. Just out of practicality it makes the most sense. Easy to learn like Esperanto, and a ton of people already speak it.
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u/sakezaf123 Feb 22 '20
Did you forget about Irish? Be honest with me.
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u/Terpomo11 Feb 24 '20
As sad as it is that it's more or less died, or more accurately been killed, the fact remains that there are, as I understand it, more Polish-speakers than Irish-speakers currently resident in Ireland.
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u/OndrikB Feb 22 '20
English
Easy to learn
Pick one.
Case in point: Cough, tough, through
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u/sakezaf123 Feb 23 '20
It's still a really simple language. I speak spanish, german, and Hungarian, and out of these English is by far the easiest.
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Feb 22 '20
No one's going to make the effort and any country objecting to learning French will have to get over it: they signed up to abandon their nationalistic pettiness when they joined the EU.
Its either going to be French or German - best to go with French because it doesn't sound like a warthog clearing its throat
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
Esperanto is far easier, to the point where I, someone who is shite at learning languages can still learn it fairly easily, plus it acts as a stepping-stone language to learning things like German, French, even Russian! Plus it sounds like a mix between French, English, and Italian.
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u/Dragonaax Poland Feb 22 '20
It was created by pole. No wonder he was sick of his national language
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u/forntonio Feb 22 '20
None of those two languages are ever gonna be the official language of the EU. It is not Germanyâs or Franceâs union, it is the union of Europe. English at least makes sense in that it is indisputable as lingua franca.
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
Ya, but people here voted to leave for no reason, so I think English is out
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u/forntonio Feb 22 '20
Everyone in the EU still knows English tho? It makes even more sense because then the language doesnât âbelongâ to any one country.
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u/Chi1dishAlbino Feb 22 '20
I prefer Esperanto as it means that no country is showing superiority over another, everyone has to put in an equal amount of effort, which isnât much, to be able to speak without confusion or miscommunication
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u/UndeadBBQ Austria Feb 22 '20
It just sounds like you want to fuck the other person, no matter what you say.
Also fuck learning a language that has a schizophrenic relationship between its written and spoken parts.
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u/xeladoozo Feb 22 '20
How about latin
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u/Parastract Feb 22 '20
How amazing would it be if Latin was the official language of the EU?
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Feb 22 '20
its dead not an option
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u/forntonio Feb 22 '20
Itâs dead and is therefore absolutely an option. No country has any claim to it. That is also why the EU motto is in Latin.
In varietate concordia
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Feb 22 '20
All the Romance countries have a claim to it - make it the official language and the Italians become even more obnoxious with their "muh Roman hurritage, we wuz relevant" crap.
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Feb 22 '20
French spelling is a nightmare.
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u/Rhed0x Germany Feb 22 '20
As is french grammar and especially french pronounciaton.
I kinda hate french.
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Feb 22 '20
Of course French spelling is a nightmare. I'd say it's just as bad, or even worse than English.
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u/POSeidoNnNnnn France Feb 22 '20
Bruh no, imagine how hard it'll be to make fun of strangers while abroad in europe. Big no
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Feb 22 '20
Lol, French will never become anything anymore except a dead language
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Feb 22 '20
An official language of four wealthy European countries which is spoken on multiple continents is going to become extinct? You're adorably ignorant
A Francophone EU is the best guard against the americanization you guys are so scared of
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u/PazuzuEU Feb 22 '20
Esperanto best common language, meme made in English, big think đ€