Proposal to change the sites official language

Author: PREZ-HILTON
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The easiest way to learn a second language is in the home from infancy. If you're really motivated to promote an international language, you should have some kids and teach them Esperanto from birth. That being said, plenty of people around the world are already learning English as a second language, whether in school or by choice. I think it would likely be easier to reform English to be more consistent. Dough, rough, and through could become Doh, ruff, and throo.
Wun uv the hardest things too lurn uhbout English is the pronunseeayshun.
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There really is no such thing as a correct way to pronounce English anyway, just look at Americans vs each other vs British accents vs Aussies and New Zealanders etc.
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Yeah accents are a whole other thing.  It's almost like you can't get a billion people to all talk the same way. Too bad for Wylted.
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@Shila
The fact we have the Bible translated into Esperanto is proof Christians demanded it.

The Bible has been translated into practically every language that exists; this is down to Christian evangelism rather than demand.


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I am told it is the only one you can exclusively use Duolingo to be fluent in. I am working on it myself. Also what is not advertised is that if you want to travel internationally, the culture would allow you to do so without ever having to get a hotel room. You just stay with another speaker in the area
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I don't think it has a culture since it's a constructed language but okay.
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Duolingo's grammar for it is differing to what happens if I translate similar/same phrases on google translate, I'm not sure which is right or wrong since it's a consistent difference even if I put the sentence differently.
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There is the belief that Jesus will not return until everyone has heard the message, so it's a way to hasten his return and save souls in the process. 
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@RationalMadman
I don't think it has a culture since it's a constructed language but okay.
I think I am using the term in a very generic way, but that is one of the criticisms of esperanto.

It's not really supposed to have a culture though. It is meant as a second language and the only reason it isn't the world language is because the French opposed it.

French was the international language prior to WW2. The funny thing is that France wants to preserve their language and I think had esperanto happened instead of being opposed by then, they wouldn't be having their language poisoned with so much borrowing of English words
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@PREZ-HILTON
There is the belief that Jesus will not return until everyone has heard the message, so it's a way to hasten his return and save souls in the process. 
Jesus return is not a belief I share.
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@Elliott
Jesus return is not a belief I share.
Thanks for sharing 
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I reject the proposal for obvious reasons. If they are not obvious to anyone , that's your cross to carry. I have no desire to entertain any discussion about the obvious. 
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Thanks for sharing 
You’re welcome, I’m more than happy to share my disbeliefs, I have many of them.
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@sadolite
I assume you mean because the creator of esperanto was Jewish.

Hitler put people in extermination camps for speaking esperanto and you are trying to shut it down just like he did
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@PREZ-HILTON
For once you're actually right about something. Hitler wrote about Esperanto in Mein Kampf, stating
Upon this first and greatest lie, that the Jew is not a race but simply a religion, further lies are then built up in necessary consequence. To them also belongs the language spoken at the time by the Jew. For him it is never a means of expressing his thoughts, but for hiding them. When he speaks French, he thinks Jewish, and when he turns out German poetry, he only gives an outlet to the nature of his people.
As long as the Jew has not become the master of the other peoples, he must, whether he likes it or not, speak their languages, and only if they would be his slaves then they might all speak a universal language so that their domination will be made easier (Esperanto!).
The rest is an association fallacy (this particular form has been given the name Reductio ad Hitlerum) Just because sadolite agrees with Hitler on something doesn't mean that it's bad or that sadolite is wrong. Hitler was also a vegetarian and liked dogs.
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Esperanto was also being taught in concentration camps and often times when the guards enquired as to what they were doing they claimed to be teaching Italian as Italy was one of Germany's allies at the time