Esperanto Doesn't Have A Culture (Don't Say It Does)
Unlike typical colocated communities, Esperantists are dispersed, so there isn't enough interaction or shared experience among speakers to create culture.
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Unlike typical colocated communities, Esperantists are dispersed, so there isn't enough interaction or shared experience among speakers to create culture.
Today I'm going to put aside my biases and bring attention to a few specific details of Esperanto which give me an unfavorable opinion of it as a language.
Sooner or later with Esperanto, you have to cross the bridge from simple subject-verb-object statements and questions to complex descriptions of causes and comparisons.
I'm going to need to know how to ask and answer questions in Esperanto if I have any hope of becoming fluent in one week.
Today I will outline the concepts of prepositions, prefixes, and suffixes — essential concepts in the language of Esperanto.
I expect that I will come out of this being able to read and write and understand Esperanto in just one week.