Post #2445903
2024-12-07 12:13 UTC
@matias@nattomaki.social We can do much better than picking a random one. We'd want a common second language to
• be easy to learn & teach
• be easy and natural to use
• be feasible to master
• be practical and expressive
• not be bound to any nation, country or ethnicity or any small set thereof
• have learning and teaching materials for many languages
• already have a critical-size number of users to be at least self-sustaining (so that it won't die out while we get ready to teach it to everyone)
@yurnidiot@mstdn.social
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@das_g@chaos.social 2024-12-07 12:28
@matias@nattomaki.social There is one (and to my knowledge only one¹) such language: #Esperanto Esperanto is far from perfect, but it is pretty good regarding these criteria (and some others). And considering group dynamics and the last two criteria in my list, it's the best we can hope to get in that regard this century (and probably the next few centuries). ¹ Esperanto isn't the only planned global auxiliary language created with these or similar goals, but (by far!) the most successful of them. @yurnidiot@mstdn.social