zeldahime:probablyquestionablerpgideas:jenngeek: dr-archeville:demiurge1138:systlin:kittyknows
zeldahime:probablyquestionablerpgideas:jenngeek: 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 THIS I,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! Speak English, know some Spanish and German. I could read this without much hassle and now I’m in awe. So this is basically this is the equivilent of common I really hate to be that guy but this is not Esperanto! It’s a *different* constructed language called Europanto. But the reasoning and cultural story behind it is the same. :) -- source link