/lit/ - Literature

>Otherwise we're going to have language wars
wtf are you talking about

>>14358700
Language is the ultimate soft power. If anyone thinks they can overtake English, they're going to push hard and cause massive conflict.

>>14358694
>/lit/ posters should start creating Esperanto content.
That sounds like too much work.

>>14358706
English has already lost this war.
Remember William the conqueror crushing England and reducing the English language to a french sub-dialect?

>>14358706
How do you say "language", "ultimate", "cause", "massive" and "conflict" in English, Pierre?
Are you a French supremacist or what?

>>14358694
Chinese is more /lit/ than Esperanto though.
What we need instead is good Chinese learning resources.

>>14358694
>Spanish is strong too and invading the USA
Spanish has always been in the US. And that's a good thing.

>>14358717
Just vocabulary. The core of English is still Germanic.

>>14358706
>If anyone thinks they can overtake English, they're going to push hard
HUH? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

>>14358694
English won already. The Western masses won't learn Chinese, I'm telling you.

No. Memesperanto is a terrible conlang and ought to die.

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>>14358802
Toki pony-fag? Gimme a break.
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>>14358810
>Lojban
based

>>14358810
Imagine speaking a Reddit tier conlang that requires you to indicate when you're being sarcastic

>>14358694
Make adjectives fucking agree with their nouns in gender instead of this all-feminine adjective & all-masuline noun thing and we'll talk.
>but gender is complicated
Not if you just have all masculines end in -o and all feminines in -a.

>>14358873
>B-but grammatical gender is sexist

>>14358873
Adjectives are feminine in Esperanto??

>>14358906
Make it animate/inanimate then. Has the advantage of even being logical.
>>14358917
Yes, they all end in -a (the Romance, Greek, & Semitic feminine suffix).

>>14358923
But why do you think it's necessarily feminine? Isnt it just an ending?

It's useless senpai. 5 years here, there's not much to see. It's makes learning Spanish easier, but nothing more really. It's full of extreme left and extreme right wing weirdos, not much of a middle ground(the latter are small in number and seem to solely exist for the purpose of griefing the former). There's that one relatively famous Australian autist who makes youtube content.

On second thought it could be useful if you were interested in joining the CIA or something but would probably be of less interest than 'real' languages.

I rather learn fucking elvish

>>14358929
If Esperanto weren't transparently based on Romance languages with a bit of Greek (in the number & case markers) then you'd have a point.

>>14358958
But why do you think that part is necessarily influenced by Romance tongue? It seems to me a rather aesthetic choice.

>>14358974
It's an ugly choice is what it is.

>>14359000
Perhaps but I meant related to aesthetics, not necessarily aesthetically pleasing.

>>14359017
I knew.

>>14358694
>China is pushing mandarin hard in Belt and Road countries
source?

>>14358724

If there is some truth to the chinks are insects meme it is concerning their language.

>>14358694
Once I finish my book, ill look into translating it into esperanto

>>14358706
This, especially after Brexit when the new anglo imperium really gets going

>>14358724
>having to memorize thousands of little strokes, plus their interactions, in order to be able to read a book
please don"t

holy shit you're so fucking dumb. this is one of the dumbest posts i've ever seen on /lit/ and this place is full of retards

>artificial natural language
lol

>>14358694
>France wants to replace English in Europe after Brexit
Wouldn't German have a better chance? The German speaking population is much bigger, Dutch is basically German, and the North and East European countries learn German in school.

>/lit/ posters should start creating Esperanto content.

You can't you will get a banned from the janitor.

Fuck jannies but at least they deleted that muslim
>>14358694

>>14362231
it stopped being artificial as soon as people started speaking it and using it, making it evolve.
Please study linguistics or gtfo

>>14362629
is it illegal to make threads in other languages?

Esperanto is cringe as fuck. It's good that noone is learning it.

Esperanto is fake, ugly and dumb. I'd much rather speak Spanish than learn that silly pseudo-language invented by homosexual communists. Thank you very much.

>>14360498
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

this thread became /pol/ faster than usual

That's a beautiful utopia. But the reality of the ruling world is: The smallest they need to adapt to the stronger.. It's all about empires even now in 2019..

This thread was brought to you by filthy conlang lovers. The audacity that these Esperanto shillers have to keep coming into these boards and talk about their shitty fictional language is infuriating. And let me tell you about those filthy Anglos. They think that they're hot shit because they grew up speaking the "lingua franca of the world". Well, all I have to say to those Viking rape-baby, imperialist, sub-human, tree worshiping, buck toothed, mentally deficient Anglos is that they and the rest of their suit loving, tiny eared, soccer losing, island people can go and FUCK themselves.
Thank you.