this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
8 points (57.7% liked)
BuyFromEU
6313 readers
407 users here now
Welcome to BuyFromEU - A community dedicated to supporting European-made goods and services!
Feel free to post, comment and vote, be excellent to each other and follow the rules.
We also invite you to subscribe to:
Logo generated with mistral le chat Banner by Christian Lue on unsplash.com
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Männin as a creation of yours just to make a point sounds weird indeed,but if it was used as currently as Professorin you wouldn't bat an eye while saying it.
My point is precisely that Esperanto is way past the "constructed language" phase, it's a living language and with a rich European history. It's also constructed at origin and very easy to learn, besides stateless, which makes it an ideal lingua-franca for Europe.
A fraction of the budget used to teach English would be needed and with better results.
What do you think "hypothetical" means?
I would definitely bat an eye if somebody came to me with that shit for a language they constructed following an "interna ideo" of universality, peace, and whatnot. I would bat the other eye if besides they came to me saying that a Männin that just had a baby becomes a Väterin, la padra, the fathress, i pateraina.
A language with letters no other language has, and a sound repertoire that offers no improvement over English (even if we reduce the target population to Europe given the community we are in), is far from ideal.
... once a critical mass of teachers is achieved, together with native populations big enough to enable linguistic immersion for new learners. Sold separately.