• Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    this is why English is a bad choice for a lingua franca

    That conclusion doesn’t follow, unless you further append something like “Lernu Esparonton!” to indicate you have a misguided belief that language needs to make sense to be useful.

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      You also have the benefit of a language like English able to steal words from all languages in that English has a flexible ruleset to communicate. Your don’t have to communicate perfectly in English to communicate in English.