i love the idea of creating conlangs. i’ve experimented with the idea of them in years past but have never done anything with them, let alone created one.

i did create some toki pona-based ones as they consist of few words (~100) but i want to create ones that aren’t just based off toki pona.

  • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 days ago

    How exactly is Esperanto “Spanish 2”? I’m genuinely not sure how you could come to that conclusion

      • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I’ve been speaking Esperanto for three years so yes. Esperanza, or a word like it, also happens to be the word for hope in most Romance languages (one of the language families that Dr. L.L. Zamenhof was pulling from so that the vocabulary would be familiar to large groups of people).

        If you’re gonna come here and say Esperanto sucks because it’s too similar to Spanish then give me examples of say, grammar that Zamenhof took from Spanish that doesn’t appear in other Romance languages.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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          4 days ago

          The point of a new universal language is to be extremely easy to learn, short and efficient. Esparanto is very clear in ripping off Spanish. Everything is long winded, inefficient ends with with an A.

          • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            3 days ago

            I will admit that Esperanto is long-winded at times but I can’t take you seriously when the only example of copying Spanish that you put forward is a word that is shared across languages. I’m willing to bet that you don’t even know what the ‘a’ suffix means in Esperanto seeing as you think every word ends with it.

            • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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              3 days ago

              The word to be in Esparanto is “estas”

              The you form of “to be” in Spanish is “estas”.

              You can paste any Esparanto sentence and it will 100% sound Spanish to someone who does not know Esparanto.

              Do you know any Spanish?

              • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                3 days ago
                1. The Esperanto word for “to be” is “esti”. “Estas” means “is”. The Spanish equivalent would be “ser” which is not even close to the same word.
                2. Just because Esperanto shares some vocabulary and phonemes with Spanish doesn’t make it a knockoff. I guarantee if you speak Portuguese to an English person they’ll think it sounds like Spanish but that doesn’t make Portuguese a copy of Spanish.
                3. I don’t speak Spanish but I live around enough Spanish-speakers, and speak enough Brazilian Portuguese that I can tell the difference between Spanish and a conlang made by a Polish man.
                  • Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                    3 days ago

                    Thanks for wasting my time with your clueless ramblings about a topic you have no idea about. I think I’m gonna end this argument here.