Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

    • Tacostrange@lemmy.ml
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      Maybe it’s Interlingua. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua Most people who speak a latin based language already understand interlingua. That would be the best chance of getting a majority of the world on the same language. It would include a big part of Europe, all of South and Central America and half of North America

      • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Interlingua: Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,

        Esperanto: Nian panon ĉiutagan donu al ni hodiaŭ

        English: Give us this day our daily bread;

        We have our choice between Spanish Latin, Romanian Latin, or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

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          or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

          English borrowed a shit tonne from Latin & Romance languages, but it is at its core a Germanic language.

          To make a joke that still sticks with the facts, maybe something like “wannabe Latin”, or “that shitty Romeaboo language”.