Welcome to the good side.

If it was only the internet… US content dominates TVs, cinemas, newspapers and bookshops all over Europe. And in big part that domination is made so easy because we all invest millions of euros to teach our populations how to speak English. L

The problem is that broken English doesn’t really fuels a European identity (it’s spoken everywhere) it only places us in a submission position in relation to US culture. And that’s why we go on reporting on Oscars or Grammys while completely ignoring the awards and artists of the country next door. We’re consumers of US English culture and that’s that. Feeding the US market…

The added value can literally be decided by decree. Make it official in the EU and off you go.

In the context of this sub being Eurocentric is not really a disadvantage.

Esperanto has far more C2 level speakers than Latin. Teachers teaching Latin in European highschools generally can’t speak it themselves. It’s not taught as a living language to use on your life, it’s taught in order to understand ancient scripts.

I could settle for Interlingua.

Männin as a creation of yours just to make a point sounds weird indeed,but if it was used as currently as Professorin you wouldn’t bat an eye while saying it.

My point is precisely that Esperanto is way past the “constructed language” phase, it’s a living language and with a rich European history. It’s also constructed at origin and very easy to learn, besides stateless, which makes it an ideal lingua-franca for Europe.

A fraction of the budget used to teach English would be needed and with better results.

I call it what it is, a sufix. Most languages have them, you don’t translate them separately from the word. German texts would be unandarstable if that was the way translation worked.

And as a living language, contrary to all other artificial languages, there’s a woke pack in Esperanto if you really want to. The wonders of a regular language, reform is very easy to implement.

No language is neutral, they have a history and a cultural luggage. Esperanto speakers can be proud of theirs.

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.

Oh the famous friendliness and open mind-ness of the Fediverse… Legendary

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

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.

So do you want to learn it in 3 months or 3 decades? Tough choice.

Wow that seems cool

If you’re fighting against Google, Meta and Amazon these guides are definitely not enough and each of them should be promoted as much as possible. There are one million guides and suggested results and videos for each of these. Don’t complain, applaud them instead.

The only detail that didn’t work well were the book covers, but I can live with thar. I started to use it this year, so from 2026 on it will have the correct covers. The archives I can’t be bothered to fix

Just fixed the title

I read their explanation on being “source available” instead of open source, didn’t sound unreasonable to me. But I’ll do further research… In the meantime one of my bank apps doesn’t trust it either and refuses to open if that’s the keyboard being used.

Yep, I just read their explanation on that, doesn’t sound unreasonable to me…