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Somehow this made wonder if Esperanto or at least the idea behind it that we can come up with one common language to use worldwide. If that was actually successful we might have less of this nonsense but then again good luck having everyone agreeing on something ... Hmm oh well

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> if that was actually successful

It was successful. That language is English, the obvious choice agreed upon by everyone who isn't interested in playing idiotic political games.

Yeah for you yes, for others it's synonym with colonialism, and armed invasion.

Not sure who's "you", considering I'm not a native speaker. But that's besides the point, conflating the English language with the foreign policy of the United States is exactly the kind of idiotic political game I was talking about.

And for me the word "chair" is synonymous with "Mountain Dew", but fortunately it doesn't matter for the rest of the world. A language has nothing to do with some of its speakers.

Not an issue in Europe.

A single, permanent auxiliary language will never be implemented as long as people can make a repeated choice. Like with this storey, official languages will flip-flop based on power struggles. If there ever was an official auxiliary language though, I would wish it to be Ido.

I would take English and make it make some sense... It's not horrible, if you make it regular and fix the spelling.

And the pronunciation. All those inconsistencies are a minefield. Now I'm off eating some Ghoti.

Or, you could just switch to French!

Esperanto is the Linux of languages.

That's way too generous. Linux at least dominates in servers and smartphones.

And Linux is much more sensible than Esperanto. It is also very eurocentric, which would be ok in this context. But it really is mostly just romance/germanic language based, slavic and other languages are basically ignored.

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