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As a french, English is a struggle every day. Try Esperanto to see what a better language look like.

• coldtea 7y ago
  Esperanto is a contrived made-up language to be easy. Of historical languages, English is no more a struggle than French. It might be harder than Italian or Spanish, but it's a walk in the park compared to e.g. Hungarian, Arabic, Greek, Chinese, and most other languages...
  • aloisdg 7y ago
    French is a nightmare. It is my mother tongue and I keep mixing everything. Languages are tools to everyday communication. Why do we keep using historical clunky tools when we are able to create far better ones? By the way, Esperanto is a popular neutral pragmatic choice. I would be fine with a any well-made community driven tool. For example, I am fond of Ido's digraphs. I think it is easier than Esperanto or French's diacritics.
    • coldtea 7y ago
      >Languages are tools to everyday communication. Why do we keep using historical clunky tools when we are able to create far better ones? Because we're not mere computers or animals, to only care about the most efficient communication of commands, facts, and numbers, but we also have a history (reflected in our words and language), a culture (ditto), a literature, poetry, idiom, and song -- all the way to ancestors who spoke the same language, and successor who will carry it forward.
• mnw21cam 7y ago
  And as a quick example of that very fact, your "everyday" (which means average, normal, not out of the ordinary) should be split into two words "every day" (which means all of the time periods which are called days).
  • aloisdg 7y ago
    Fixed. Thank you!