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Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity (bigthink.com)
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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Yup. It's a bit like this, but on two levels - people complaining about natlangs because "nobody"* uses Esperanto, and complaining about Esperanto because "nobody"* uses the other auxiliary conlangs.

*I mean, proportionally.

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