stevita: dr-archeville: demiurge1138: systlin: kittyknowsthings: andishallemerge: holey-jona-d: a-ma
stevita:dr-archeville:demiurge1138:systlin:kittyknowsthings:andishallemerge:holey-jona-d:a-magpie-witchling:seiokona:cinary:I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca. STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THISI,understand about a half of it, I speak some dutch“What Happened? Did your computer catch a virus? Did you suddenly develop BSE [mad cow disease]?”Between German, English, Latin, a bit of French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian that was actually pretty readable to me. I speak English and a very little spanish, and I can read it. Super legible and I love it. There are a few movies done partly or entirely in Esperanto, the most famous probably being Leslie Stevens’ Incubus (1966), a horror film starring William Shatner!I only speak two languages (English and Spanish) and I got this loud and clear -- source link
#esperanto#fascinating stuff#languages