• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    What happens when we get to the end of the Greek alphabet?

    That’s something for Gen Φ or Χ to worry about, sometime in the year 2420. If humanity makes it that far, it feels like a very minor concern.

    More likely we just won’t be using this archaic technology for generational cohorts by then, because we’ll be using Esperanto or Universal Standard Hindi or Mandarin.

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      8 days ago

      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

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        8 days ago

        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.