The language is not the culture! I've talked with people from China, Russia, South America, all in Esperanto. But if you speak a common language with people from other countries, you can experience their culture. People say 'it has no culture, it was all invented'. The argument that gets me is the 'culture' thing. Or they assume only severe language nerds learn it. Just because the stated goal of Esperanto was to unify the world, etc etc, people reject it as being silly and nonsensical. IMO most of the criticisms are just knee-jerk rejections. Thanks for having a really rational opinion on this. Because language is just a tool for communication. If in 10 years the entire world switched to Esperanto, these people would learn it too. There are natural languages with less speakers, and less media, and non written form, but they are 'natural'. Cause no other argument is legitimate IMO. Who has any sort of criticism against Esperanto or any other conlang should just admit to themselves and everyone else that they have a bias against constructed languages. It's as simple as that.Įveryone.i mean everyone. Language 'beauty' is subjective and completely irrelevant to anything. These are all criticisms that gets lobbed at Esperanto. I can't listen to podcasts in asl.(tho there are a few vlogs I can watch) There is no country I can go to where ASL is exclusively spoken. There aren't any books written in ASL, as it has no written form. There isn't a good count of how many people use the language(thanks US census) but it's less than 100,000 most likely. My second language is American Sign Language. I speak 2 languages at native level and I'm working on a 3rd. I don't speak Esperanto and I probably will never learn it, but the comments that pop up around Esperanto are so annoying.

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