this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
361 points (95.0% liked)

196

17455 readers
1101 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.


Rule: You must post before you leave.



Other rules

Behavior rules:

Posting rules:

NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.

Other 196's:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

You clearly know much more than I do about it but yeah I always heard Esperanto was a poor attempt.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

That is true, but it should be branded as such, not as an international language, localized auxillary languages can be great, see Interslavic as an example