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I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)

It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS

I,understand about a half of it, I speak some dutch

“What Happened? Did your computer catch a virus? Did you suddenly develop BSE [mad cow disease]?”

Between German, English, Latin, a bit of French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian that was actually pretty readable to me.

I speak English and a very little spanish, and I can read it. 

Super legible and I love it.

There are a few movies done partly or entirely in Esperanto, the most famous probably being Leslie Stevens’ Incubus (1966), a horror film starring William Shatner!

Speak English, know some Spanish and German. I could read this without much hassle and now I’m in awe.

So this is basically this is the equivilent of common

This is fuckin with me like,,, what if this is future basic in the trek universe.

I speak some French and Spanish (and a little Latin). I understood like 90 percent of this.

My first language is English, I know a few scattered words in Spanish, French, and German. Stumbled a couple times, but the meaning is clear!

This is cool as long as the EU doesn’t enforce and mandate it as “Globish”.

This is super cool; with my English, high school Quebecois, and a little German from my dad, I can understand virtually the entire thing!

It’s not Esperanto, though; it’s Europanto. Esperanto (a made-up language) was, I believe, designed to be easily learned; there are no weird rule violations or what.

Europanto, though, is designed to take advantage of Europe’s shared linguistic heritage, in such a way that you don’t *have* to learn it; as the book says, if you can read any one of those European languages, and maybe have a smattering of some of the most common words of any of the others, you ought to be able to follow along, almost instinctively. Which is rad as fuck.

this is amazing and if this is the future, I am 100% on board