Comment on Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?

burliman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• railsdev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I too wish Esperanto would gain mass adoption but my only qualm with it is the consonant clusters that aren’t friendly for non-European language speakers.

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  • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alas, there are enough serious problems to fill a book.

    Given that Esperanto was created before most of modern linguistics, this isn’t all that surprising. Programmers don’t much write in Plankalkül either.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Toki Pona

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A language that’s hard to say much in even if you know 100% of the vocabulary.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a regular person who speaks a non-indo-european language, yeah I thought that was obvious

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  • blindsight@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d love to read more about that! Normally, I’d just do my own searching, but since you have actual expertise in the area, is there someone in particular I should search for who explains this?

    I also want to clarify that I’m not skeptical; on the contrary, I can think of three reasons off the top of my head, as a layman who knows virtually nothing about Esperanto, just based on you identifying colonialism as an issue, but I was hoping to get an educated take on it.

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• oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lojban

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• tun@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think OP means programming language. Not the languages used by human to communicate each other.

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• TheV2@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What disrupted the fun for me:

  • the rules for articles before languages, countries and their people
  • everything sounds the same / easy to be misunderstood
  • not nearly as internationally approachable as it could be, though obviously that’s almost impossible

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• anothermember@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jes

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