senloke

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   by senloke 3y ago

   > Posts like these are the 'no fun allowed' of constructed languages, and > it pops up most often with Esperantists. Like a diplomat, you refuse to > let people use words carelessly, or loosely. Wtf? What 'no fun all
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   by senloke 3y ago

   I think that view of you is wrong. The distinction is an important one. By saying you create a diplomatic language, you are marketing towards the elite, as I wrote in my post. By saying that everybody speaks it as a second language, which i
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   by senloke 3y ago

   > But, yes, toki pona lifts this to a whole 'nother level. Does anyone > happen to know how Esperanto compares? As far as I know, it should be > quite similar to a "normal" (non-con)language in this regard (just sim
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   by senloke 3y ago

   An actual Esperanto speaker here. I need to correct this. It was never intended to be a "diplomatic" language, as such a language only spoken by diplomats between their kind. So the language of a small elite, which does not want t