Your brain is full! Get that gunk out of there! Put it in writing! Info dump whatever weird thoughts you got buried in there. Go hard on the deep dive. Tell me a dang story. Feed me the whole meal.
So, the short version of it is that I learned about the attempted international auxiliary language called Esperanto at a party, and now I've been learning it on Duolingo over the past couple months. I've primarily used this to write little Esperanto shitposts. I'm just gonna dump a few of them them here. You can run them through Google translate if you like.
(Or try learning it with me, it's only four units on duolingo compared to like, ten for Spanish. Totally useless for most of the reasons people learn languages, but a relatively easy language to learn with a really interesting history.)
Kvarcent dudek flamegu gxin
Bonvolu memorigi min mangxigi la katknabino
Sesdek naux. Tio estas la seksa numero. Boneta.
Me writing Esperanto: mia Esperanto plibonigxas! Mi estas tiel bona esperantisto :))
Me in the Esperanto for beginners zoom: "jes" "ne" "uh" "mi ne komprenas"
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Josie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 9:16 pm
Totally useless for most of the reasons people learn languages
I've heard that Esperanto is really useful as a bridge between languages / makes it easier to learn a lot of other non-constructed languages that it was modeled after.
Josie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 9:51 pm
A little sad that i can't do the hats and bowls on here but i don't want to force you all to read ĉu vi ambaŭ manĝas ĝia etc etc so little Xs it is
All those little accents worked for me (albeit with a funky looking font). There should be an accented characters map tab near the smileys when you're making a post. This is what your post looked like on my end:
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uhpkkim wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:46 pm
I've heard that Esperanto is really useful as a bridge between languages / makes it easier to learn a lot of other non-constructed languages that it was modeled after.
This is true! Another motivation for me to learn it was to see if it would help with learning Spanish.
uhpkkim wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:46 pm
All those little accents worked for me (albeit with a funky looking font). There should be an accented characters map tab near the smileys when you're making a post. This is what your post looked like on my end:
esperanto.png
That doesn't look too terrible, but this is what it looks like on my end
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When i say "most of the reasons" i mean like, the more common financial and social reasons. It's very cool and good if you just want to get really into language learning. My coworker who knows more languages than me is loving it because she can see the connections between languages she learned and Esperanto.
is the x thing a common practice if accents arent available? is that just an esperanto thing? i don't know that i've ever seen that
It's just an Esperanto thing. You can also use Hs, but i prefer Xs. H is a letter in Esperanto but X isn't, so to me X feels less ambiguous. But also for certain letters the H does phonetically line up. For example: ŝ has a "sh" sound.
