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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6555 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 34 30 December 2010 at 2:46am | IP Logged | ||
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7161 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 34 30 December 2010 at 4:18am | IP Logged | ||
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What?! No Hungar... Ahh, skip it. :-P
You know that I'm just having some fun with this. (Although I really would vote for Hungarian every time ;-)) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5127 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 3 of 34 30 December 2010 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||
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German German German! :P
Of course... I'm biased as that's what I'm studying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5120 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 4 of 34 30 December 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm studying both, and love both. However, I share the typical Esperantist view that Esperanto's relative neutrality, and easiness to learn compared to German, would make it a better global language.
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6965 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 5 of 34 30 December 2010 at 8:58am | IP Logged | ||
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What about English?
English is already the global language .There is no competion. Now here we are writing in English . Esperantists , Interliguistas, Klingonians etc. etc. here , in these threads , sometimes quarrel about the lingua franca of the world, but they do it in English . Esperanto is only for esperantists. Interlingua is only for interliguistas. English is the easiest existent language and go on without propaganda. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6954 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 34 30 December 2010 at 9:17am | IP Logged | ||
I've also studied both (or at least dipped my toes in Esperanto), and I agree with all your points here. I love German, but I can't really think of a reason why it would be superior as a global language to Esperanto... people criticize its relative lack of literature, culture, etc., but for the purpose of choosing a world language I think this would make it a better choice than German. German as a global language might give an unfair advantage to native speakers and promote Germanization of different cultures. In other words, it wouldn't be much different than the situation with English today - although originally I suppose the popularity of English-speaking culture/media gave rise to English as a global language, and not the other way around, these days I think it's developed into a self-perpetuating cycle kind of thing, so the kind of cultural assimilation that's taking place these days might just as well have happened as a result of a global language. I have nothing against globalization, but I'd rather see it happen through a more neutral vehicle (ideally even more neutral than Esparanto) than the Anglicization or Germanization of the world. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5325 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 34 30 December 2010 at 10:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm German and I'd also vote for English, because it has countless advantages over both German and
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| zamie Groupie Australia Joined 5258 days ago 83 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Modern Hebrew | Message 8 of 34 30 December 2010 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well since i am learning German i'd say German, but i have not yet decided which of the
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