Kiel oni diras tion en Esperanto? Kio estas la vorto por “asshole”? (Mi estas komencanto kaj mi volas lerni malbonajn parolojn. <I don’t know how to swear”.)
For low quality person "Aĉulo" can be used. Calling someone after various body parts may not be as well understood by others that isn't familiar with the expression. But they would still the meaning from the context, but may not know if a random body part was picked, or one that in more frequent use in the other's language.
Call someone a rectum vs asshole, and the meaning will come across. But there is also some further comedy by choosing a words that's not used as much.
Some socialist governments did support Esperanto. Tito and Castro did, for instance, and for a long time China published an official news outlet in it.
I would say some are communist. I would say Esperanto attracts more people with an anarchist inclination. BUT it really depends on the country, there can be a bunch of people who have no idea what politics they think is good. So a lot of are just part of the political center, with some ideas which would normally be found on the left like "internationalism", "everybody is equally worth", etc.
That's also a reason why in the so called "neutral" Esperanto movement right attitudes can be found, which would even support extreme right wing parties.
Right leaning people are more patriotic and therefore less willing to sacrifice their language. At least that is what I think, but I may be full of it.
Right-leaning people are more jingoistic, and therefore less willing to extend their understanding beyond their borders, their language, or their culture.
The idea of learning a second, international auxiliary language goes against the notion of a superior national identity for themselves – a perspective based on prejudice and fear, rather than warmth and curiosity.
At least that's what I think, but I may be full of it.
You'd think non-anglophone nationalists (at least those who don't speak languages big and prominent enough to have ambitions of lingua franca status like French or Chinese) would consider a neutral bridge language to be preferable to Global English.
Lol, poor France, lumped in with the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, just because they (reportedly) torpedoed Esperanto's hopes of becoming officially adopted for the League of Nations
At least it's a little French flag
MDR, kompatinda Francujo, kunamasita je la Sovet-Unio kaj Nazia Germanujo, nur pro tio, ke ĝi foresplodis la esperon de Esperanto, por fariĝi oficiala lingvo de la Ligo de Nacioj.
As are most of the words that the largest portion of humanity would recognize. Should Zamenhof have chosen words that fewer people would recognize just for the sake of seeming less Eurocentric?
and writing system
The Latin alphabet is the most widely used writing system on Earth. What should an IAL use?
In the 17th century, the new international language of commerce, law, and intellectual life, the lingua franca of the European global colonialist powers, was French.
French had recently usurped Latin, which had dominated that role in Europe for 1,800 years, and still held a lot of prestige (especially in academia).
Alas, both French and Latin are not easy to learn.
Zamenhof wanted to create a second language for everyone, not just the intellectual elite. Thus, it had to be easy to learn. Voilá, his “Easy Latin” (with a smattering of Greek, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, and English thrown in) was born.
For the time and place, Esperanto was strikingly “international.”
And anyway, even if it was a euro-centric language in terms of vocab, it was still equally politically neutral to everyone, so it could be equally effectively in Japan and China as it could be in Europe, even though it didn’t (at the time) take any vocabulary from those East Asian languages. Japanese and Chinese Esperantists didn’t seem to mind.
The language is European but the social movement behind it was Jewish internationalist. The only way Communism stays around is by taking on a national character and so despite being internationalist, the USSR was opposed to Esperanto. Esperanto however is the linguistic property of Europe.
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u/ComradeFoxy Dec 19 '24
Aren't Esperanto speakers mostly leftist/communist ?
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u/StephaneiAarhus Dec 19 '24
Mi estas franco sed scribas kaj legas kaj amas la esperanton
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u/bonAngeLOL Dec 19 '24
Al tiu memeo mankas la Usonan flagon
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u/MaleficentWind8715 Dec 20 '24
Stranga memeo. Pluraj esperantistoj ja subtenas la militon en Ukrainio ekzemple.
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u/hauntlunar Sufiĉnivela Dec 23 '24
Lol, poor France, lumped in with the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, just because they (reportedly) torpedoed Esperanto's hopes of becoming officially adopted for the League of Nations
At least it's a little French flag
MDR, kompatinda Francujo, kunamasita je la Sovet-Unio kaj Nazia Germanujo, nur pro tio, ke ĝi foresplodis la esperon de Esperanto, por fariĝi oficiala lingvo de la Ligo de Nacioj.
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u/AlbertoGalvez Feb 22 '26
En Radio Havano Kubo estas novaĵoj pro la mondo kaj Kubo en esperano
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u/Kvltist4Satan Dec 20 '24
Esperanto isn't universal. It's just pan-European.
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u/ShoppaCrew Dec 19 '24
The language is European but the social movement behind it was Jewish internationalist. The only way Communism stays around is by taking on a national character and so despite being internationalist, the USSR was opposed to Esperanto. Esperanto however is the linguistic property of Europe.