Today is the birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of the international language Esperanto, the language of choice of international socialist.
This is a good occasion to start learning Esperanto! Here are some helpful links:
ikindalikelanguages.com
duolingo.com
lernu.net
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youtube.com
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angelfire.com
twitter.com
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I intend to learn Esperanto… one day
Why not start today?
One hour of Esperanto communist music
youtube.com
alright, I'll try Duolingo
Go for it.
It's actually really interesting, it makes you think about languages in a different way.
If you need a friend, I'm anonesperanto on Duolingo.
Saluton, amikoj!
I am human - Mi estas homo
No wonder this never kicked off hard
What else is new
I remember reading probably on Wikipedia that Trotsky was inspired by Esperanto's green star in order to make the socialist red star. Anyone ever heard of this?
Was it sourced?
fuck esperanto
angelfire.com
Not the most reassuring source.
Why didn't you wrote your post in esperanto instead of my second language?
Esperanto is a corpse that doesn't knows it's dead.
"For this reason I believe that those who envision a future world speaking only one tongue, whether English, German, Russian, or any other, hold a misguided ideal and would do the evolution of the human mind the greatest disservice. Western culture has made, through language, a provisional analysis of reality and, without correctives, holds resolutely to that analysis as final. The only correctives lie in all those other tongues which by aeons of independent evolution have arrixed at different, but equally logical, provisional analyses." — Benjamin Whorf, "Languages and logic"
Esperanto is not supposed to kill off other languages, it was designed to be an universal second language.
Bump for motivation
Why is it worth learning Esperanto and what does it have to do with socialism?
Absolutely nothing. It's an ugly artificial eurocentric language that was banned in USSR. Speak Russian and your native language and foreign languages of your choice, or die.
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Wasn't Zamenhof a reformist cunt? How is adopting a porky language going to advance the workers' cause?
It's a good language to troll people with.
It helped me a lot when I was in China. It's more popular there and for some reason, unlike English, they are able to speak it without an indistinguishable dialect.
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