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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pleiades@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Reading through this thread really makes me wish Esperanto or some other auxiliary language caught on

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Isnt that english?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Esperanto is a romance-adjacent language using the Roman alphabet. It has its own grammar and phonetics, with rules that are flexible enough that a word-for-word translation from English or German will have a fairly correct sentence structure. As someone who speaks English, knows a little French, and has heard German, I expect it is closer to Spanish or Portuguese than English, but it isn't just like those, either.