Gaeilge just to fuck with the brits. We all have to write it in ogham too, I don’t care how inconvenient it might be.
That or serbo-croatian because we are all serbs anyway
Tabhairfaidh mé mo vóta duit.
Such a pretty language. I should learn it someday!
Mé fresin.
I would have picked gaeilge too, since it’s the only other language I know (kinda, I’m terrible at it). Ogham sucks though.
Yeah Ogham would be fucking awful for modern communication but I thought it’d be really funny. In a more serious sense I actually think it’d be super interesting to see how humans adapted to it and adapted it to their needs.
Anyway I also picked Gaeilge because it makes for great lyricism
I’ve been enjoying studying Mandarin. The tones are a bit weird but the grammar seems surprisingly simple, everything can be written pretty universally in pinyin, and Hanzi characters are great for condensing information.
Hanzi characters are great for condensing information.
True, I will ask this: Why does it have 2 variants? Traditional? Modern?
Fucked if I know 😂 I’m studying it on my own from textbooks and online resources, not in a classroom setting taught by scholars much much smarter than me. I assume the reduced complexity of simplified characters makes it more accessible though, which is why I understand the PRC makes Pinyin required on road signs as well.
The ultimate goal was to transition Mandarin to Roman letters (which had happened naturally in Vietnam, so there was precedent).ao’s party realised that going straight from Chinese characters to Roman letters would be too abrupt, so took a first step of swapping out complex characters for characters that look simpler but are easier to write. This was surprisingly well-received, and became standard in mainland China (but Taiwan did not adopt the new system on the entirely reasonable grounds of fuck the CCP). The CCP intended to do a second round of simplification, but the people balked at this on the grounds that it made the written language to difficult to read, and so they stopped at the current set.
Because languages change over time and every once in a while someone comes along who insists they can “fix” the language by making a bunch of changes. They are probably right and the changes, if widely adopted, will probably make the language more sensible. However, since one of the common features of a living language is that it changes over time due to usage, oddities will start creeping back in. And the whole thing will need to start all over again.
Globasa. A constructed language, but with most world language families represented, and a process that ensures new words meet a few other good criteria.
Barring that, toki pona.
Person Singular Plural
1st me nus
And you lost me. Irregular pluralization at the very core of the language does not smack of a the ideal neutral language, whether it is shared by Germanic and Romance languages or not.
Sanskrit.
One of the South American variants of Spanish, probably Argentinian. And I say that despite not speaking any Spanish.
The language itself is a contact language and heavily influenced by centuries of cohabitation with speakers of Arabic. That simplified a lot of the Indo-European complexities away.
The phonology - the sounds - of the language are clear and predictable and sufficiently different that a non-native speaker and their accent are not too troublesome in comprehension.
The language itself is already a world language, ranking 4th in number of native speakers.
I like the suggestion of Esperanto, which I do personally speak and which has all the advantages above, except already being a world language.
One of the South American variants of Spanish, probably Argentinian.
I’d agree on the sense that everything in argentine spanish can be said with thousands of curse words interspersed. ¡la puta madre que lo parió, boludo de mierda!
That’s why they call it the Silver Tongue!
French, we could all be a little more french when keeping our leaders on a leash
Klingon or Quenya, both sounds like music (just of different genres)
Something with a consistent phonetic alphabet, like Korean with hangol.
French, we could all be a little more french when keeping our leaders on a leash
Uzbek
Or Ubykh.
Hmm, interesting. Do you have reasons, or was that just a random choice? I know pretty little about it. Actually, I’m not even sure if it’s Turkic or Persian or something else.
As piwakawakas said, Uzbek is a meme.
Maybe wrong, but I believe this is from a language learning sub on reddit where people would ask what language they should learn without any other qualifiers. It was asked so frequently that people just started replying Uzbekistani.
Again, that’s my memory of it, could be wrong.
Could be! Like “under the laws of Saudi Arabia…” in the legal advice community.
I assume people asking legal advice but not specifying where they are?
Yup. Jurisdiction is very important, but a lot of people seem to have never considered it.
And if you’re not aware, Saudi is still a medieval-style absolute monarchy with public beheadings for, like, adultery. (And a valued Western ally)
I knew things were grim, but that’s worse than I thought!
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/4sok49/is_uzbek_like_a_meme_on_this_subreddit/
If you want to brave Reddit
realistically, lojban, aui, mirad or kotava.
out of fictional languages, quenya, klingon, or the language of the culture from iain m. banks’ books.
Türkçe not gendered (at all, everyone and everything is “o”) and one of the easiest languages to learn
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I think it’s worth it learning dutch if you nail the accent, especially common ones found 50 years ago (as in dubbed Pipi Longstocking).
Nou ja zeg!
Dit zelfver-nederland-cultuurtje moet blijkbaar
nog altijd blijven opkijken naar de taal waar het hoofdland
op dit moment verder afglijdt naar het fascisme.Hey, can you translate this to English?
Because what Google gives me doesn’t make sense:
This self- Dutchifying culture apparently still has to look up to the language, while the main country is currently sliding further towards fascism.
Tsk tsk!
This selfhu-miliationland-culture* apparently
needs to keep looking up to the language where it’s main country
is currently sliding further and further towards fascism.
* Wordplay on the Netherlands and humilation
Swedish, very pretty language
