Esperanto: The most naive project of all time?

[Kulee Baba]

I've thought this way for a long time but I just came across Benedict Arnold Fredrick Brennan aka Hotwheels speaking in Esperanto.

The best thing about this video is that it makes me think of "The Arm" from Twin Peaks.

But I digress, Esperanto is so very very stupid. To think a language that no countryman would naturally learn as a first language is so stupid. And the dumb jew bastard who made it up only combined a bunch of European languages, so it's not like it was any more inviting to people indigenous to Africa or Asia.

Truly one of the stupidest concepts. And they claim there's 2 Million People who speak it. What a load of bullshit.

 

[Ben Affleck]

where are these 2 million people speaking this made up language?

 

[Colon capital V]

Why does the name sound like a type of drink from starbucks?

 

[oldTireWater]

Sci-Fi authors used to love futuristic settings where everyone spoke Esperanto.

 

[Kulee Baba]

where are these 2 million people speaking this made up language?

I see it regularly being cited and it appears to come off from a shitty NPR article.

Although the language hasn't become as popular as Zamenhof hoped — or brought world peace — it's estimated that anywhere between 200,000 and 2 million people speak the language worldwide. Devotees say Esperantists exist all over the globe, with especially large pockets in Europe, as well as China, Japan and Brazil.

My sides! All the notable Japanese Espies are dead. English thanks to The Internet and Hollywood wound up being the language Esperantotards dreamt of. And the majority of Japanese people can't even be bothered to learn English much less an irrelevant MUTT language.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

I think its an intresting linguistic experiment but it is naive/utopianist to think it would actually see widespread adoption.

 

[Milkis]

It was made up at the turn of the century when people believed in all sorts of stupid shit like communism. In fact, it came out of the same social circles. You can learn more by checking the "early life" section of many Esperanto pioneers.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

Sci-Fi authors used to love futuristic settings where everyone spoke Esperanto.

i remember that the early seasons of red dwarf had rimer and lister occasionally speak it. but it didnt last into the later seasons.

I think its an intresting linguistic experiment but it is naive/utopianist to think it would actually see widespread adoption.

yeah ive always thought it was interesting as a project, but nobody who is reasonable would ever believe it would ever come true. a 'simplistic' universal second language is a neat idea, and there are some interesting linguistic stuff in esperanto from what i recall reading of it, but nobody other than internet autist are ever going to speak it.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

English is the new lingua franca. Let's hope it stays that way so we don't have to learn Chinese or Spanish.

 

[Breadbassket]

Esperanto made more sense in an age before English became the one language everyone needs to learn nowadays. Now its just something for hobbyists.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

English is the new lingua franca. Let's hope it stays that way so we don't have to learn Chinese or Spanish.

Of course you don't want to learn Spanish. You can't even pronounce the words. Anytime when i heard a englishman raping all the Spanish alphabet, is funny.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

you idiots forget that esperanto began around the same time as hebrew and is equally as absurd, literally the only difference is no ethno-religious aspect tied to the language. Beyond that the whole "speak english to fly/surf the web/watch films" didn't hit until way after the experiment was basically over. it 1000% could work if given a shot.

 

[Kulee Baba]

you idiots forget that esperanto began around the same time as hebrew and is equally as absurd, literally the only difference is no ethno-religious aspect tied to the language. Beyond that the whole "speak english to fly/surf the web/watch films" didn't hit until way after the experiment was basically over. it 1000% could work if given a shot.

You'd be better off treating Indonesian as your Universal Rosetta Stone language. Indonesian, like Esperanto was made to be easy to communicate in and no verb conjugations. See

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Very stupid
The cost of learning a useless language is very high, if you want to make a global language using an existing lingua franca (English) is much more realistic.
It's a despicable goal anyways, linguistic diversity is wonderful and gives color to the world.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Very stupid
The cost of learning a useless language is very high, if you want to make a global language using an existing lingua franca (English) is much more realistic.
It's a despicable goal anyways, linguistic diversity is wonderful and gives color to the world.

100%, imagine how fucked up a person would be if you forced them to exclusively learn esperanto too? like he'd be like a creature. he'd have no real association with other humans. like how immigrants hate their mother country he would hate humanity.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I actually kind of like the concept of a constructed language, but it doesn't seem to really work in practice.

 

[Jarch6]

People still make conlangs nowadays (sometimes for fantasy - e.g., Tolkien's elvish languages - or just as an academic/fun exercise) but the notion of making a new universal language everyone will learn is clearly not only stupid but bad (sounds like horrible NWO/commie shit to disconnect people from history and culture).

 

[Lasersuit Larry]

It may be a good idea in theory, but in practice it's a game for who can be most pretentiously overeducated. Making a new language for all the world to learn feels very squishy and warm until you realize that most people outside schooling age simply don't have the time, energy, or brainpower to just up and learn a new language, any new language.

From there, it simply becomes another way for elitist professionals to communicate among themselves away from the prying ears of the plebs. At this point writing something in Esperanto practically guarantees that it will only ever be understood by other globalist ideologues.

Tl;dr Esperanto is just progressive carny for talking over the heads of the marks.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I can see how a basic shared language could make life easier globally, though it really comes down to stuff tourist will want to know, any deep ideas (for example, research papers) won't be possible without routinely expanding the language, which will likely end with different places having different vocabularies anyways. Language is a living thing, and like all living things it will evolve differently depending on the location.

You know, I'm surprised there isn't an attempt by the elite to make their own language yet.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

The only memorable thing about this language is it was the official Shadaloo language in Street Fighter: The Movie.

It's also on the propaganda posters in Bison's base.