Post #420585

@benny@kirche.social @kubofhromoslav@esperanto.masto.host @proedie@mastodon.green @kinkkong@kinkycats.org @Pare@sociale.network @valhalla @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu From what I know of linguistics, I don't believe that it's possible to have a language that is simultaneously comprehensible by the human mind and completely neutral. There are too many linguistic features which are common to some languages and not others. Some, we could probably just dispense with, such as grammatical gender, without putting native speakers of the languages that have them at a disadvantage, but some will remain. While there is considerable acknowledgement that #Esperanto is easier for native speakers of various European languages from which it draws it's vocabulary, it at least presents less of a disadvantage to people coming from other native languages. And the fact that it is built heavily on vocabulary common to many European languages is actual a reasonable argument for using it for international communication within Europe.