calcopiritus

Doesn’t make it an excuse.

If you want a language to be used universally, it must not be a clusterfuck.

If it is a clusterfuck, it’s easier to make excuses to not adopt the language. So it will fail in becoming a universal language.

“Why would I learn English to communicate with you? You should learn Spanish to communicate with me! Since English has X and Y issues that Spanish doesn’t have”.

I actually have a proposal for my own language (spanish). It’s written in a jokingly manner, but here it is: https://github.com/Calcoph/espa-ol-dos

The good thing about Spanish is that if you know the rules, you know how to pronounce a word when you see it written. However, if you hear it, it is ambiguous as to how it is written. So my proposal for spanish makes each letter have 1 sound and 1 sound only. And each sound is represented by a single letter.

A similar thing to that would already massively improve English. And that’s just changing how the words are written, without changing the grammar at all.

Notice how that changes the easiest part of the language to change. You don’t need to change grammar, or words used, or pronunciation.

Just having the sounds and the text be consistent with each other makes the language massively easier to learn. In addition, you wouldn’t have one different way to pronounce each word per town in England. So even if you learned English from a texan, you would still be able to communicate perfectly with a Liverpool Englishman.

Even if local accents form, everyone would know how to fall back to the “correct” pronunciation if they see they’re talking to a foreigner and are having trouble communicating.

Of course, all other aspects of English are a clusterfuck too, but you gotta start somewhere. And I think it’s best to start with the high impact low hanging fruit.

That’s because it wasn’t chosen as a European language. If it were, more people would learn it.

Oh you’re a french businessman looking to expand into Spain? Sorry, we don’t know french, you’ll have to use one of the official languages to do the paperwork, which includes esperanto.

You would need to pay a spanish-speaking lawyer. Then a German one, then an English one. Or you could pay a single esperanto-speaking one that would be accepted in any European country.

This would incentivize lawyers to learn esperanto. You could do similar things for other fields. Eventually (after a LOT of time), it would just make sense to do daily life in esperanto.

Only if you accept that English is a garbage language and reform it so the rest of the world has to learn a sensible language instead of the clusterfuck that is english.

There are digital payment methods that don’t require a card.

I remember when I was a child there was “paysafe”. Where you paid to a physical machine and get a code to spend online. I imagine it still exists.

To be fair, cornfields consume resources other than solar energy. Like CO2. However the benefits of consuming CO2 goes away if you’re just gonna burn the corn, which releases CO2 again.