I joke, it was fun, esperantists are good people. I did it to ‘cheat’ at being bi-lingual, I don’t think that was the best motivation. Toki pana would’ve been easier.
We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system
Haven’t heard of the third one, but the first two have glaring problems that prevent them from being truly international. Esperanto in particular is extremely Eurocentric
yeah I just kinda figure we would never agree on a spoken one but I think sign language is doable. Then also would be a huge boon for those who have to use it.
I still think we should agree on a universal sign language and then have every country teach it in school for all years of public school.
Have I got an xkcd for you!
there are 6 competing standards!
Now 7
I agree but the esperantists will be annoyed by us choosing a different language
Ne, mi ankaŭ ne volis lerni esperanton.
I joke, it was fun, esperantists are good people. I did it to ‘cheat’ at being bi-lingual, I don’t think that was the best motivation. Toki pana would’ve been easier.
There’s dozens of them!
Why do you think universal sign language would be better than universal spoken language?
That would be not very accessible for people with sight or hand mobility issues. We’d need a spoken form of it, too.
We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system
It would, but we also can do better
We have, like, 3 of those: logban, Esperanto, and …lochebem?
Haven’t heard of the third one, but the first two have glaring problems that prevent them from being truly international. Esperanto in particular is extremely Eurocentric
yeah I just kinda figure we would never agree on a spoken one but I think sign language is doable. Then also would be a huge boon for those who have to use it.