Reminder that esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages, having a phoneme Inventory based off one of the languages Zamenhof happened to speak and having an agglutinative grammar that would be unfamiliar and difficult to many people

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages

It's great as a European communal language for this reason.

As a bridge to an IAL it's significantly easier to train and maintain than the current standard of English.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

That is true, but it should be branded as such, not as an international language, localized auxillary languages can be great, see Interslavic as an example

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

You clearly know much more than I do about it but yeah I always heard Esperanto was a poor attempt.