esperanto

I really wish Reformed Esperanto had usurped Esperanto, which fixed a lot of the bugs.

We are seeing an upsurge in Esperanto at the moment because of the appearance of the Duolingo course.

My point is that, it would still be considered a failure by the standards that Esperanto set for itself.

For example, the creator of Esperanto didn't put any cuss words in his language because he thought it was unnecessary.

Fluency in Esperanto or Lojban, for example, can be attained in as little as one year.

Why do people learn languages like Lojban or Esperanto when you can learn some actual languages that actual people use?

While both conlangs might be interesting, some people might argue that Esperanto is more valuable because there actual native speakers.

Any such claim about Esperanto should be regarded as a claim that needs further verification.

People learn Esperanto because it's useful - especially if you travel or have international interests.

But Esperanto is super easy to learn in the first place, it gets you to learning your third language that much quicker.

The gargantuan effort to make Google+ succeed looked like some folks' effort to make Esperanto into the de-facto international language instead of English.

Two days after the launch of Esperanto course at the popular language learning site Duolingo, the course has already gained almost ten thousand participants.

I take that more as an indication that Esperanto's standards are unrealistic more than that Esperanto is a "failure".

My "payment" for knowing Esperanto is the community of (mostly) intelligent, (mostly) compassionate, and (mostly) generous people i've met using it.

Please don't trivialise Esperanto by referring to the century-old "sixteen rules myth," this is harmful to people with a starting interest in the language.

* Conclusion: It's faster to learn "(Esperanto|Lojban) Swedish" than it is to learn Swedish alone.

They've actually done studies on that - not with lojban, but with another simple constructed language: Esperanto.

By comparison, Esperanto's grammar is very easy--sixteen rules, easily learned by anyone familiar with a European language.

Waiting… was both experimental in narrative and formal terms, much of the dialogue being a mix of English and Esperanto.