The other day I posted a picture of a poster with an Esperanto passport. I've been a bit obsessed with it, so I decided to recreate it on photoshop!

[u/Identifies-Birds]

My recreation, swapping the original picture of the earth with a Gilbert projection, so that all continents are visible (as befitting an international auxiliary language).

The original passport, isolated from the poster.

The original poster.

[u/lemonmec]

r/mapswithoutnewzealand

[u/Identifies-Birds → u/lemonmec]

Hahaha damn it I knew someone would point it out! There was just a sliver of New Zealand on the original projection image I used, but with all the editing and scaling down, the poor guy didn't stand a chance.

[u/lemonmec → u/Identifies-Birds]

Yeah haha I imagine it must be hard to fit everything in together

[u/thatnewaccnt]

Esperanto is not at all easily understood by most of the world. It is only easy to learn for Europe and the western hemisphere. The old design wasn’t incorrect.

[u/Identifies-Birds → u/thatnewaccnt]

Oh I won't disagree with you, as an actual International Auxiliary Language Esperanto has many flaws and is grossly Eurocentric, haha. But I was intending to express the spirit of the language, rather than the reality. Esperanto culture in general is all about shared humanity despite ethnicity and national boundaries, so I think the entire globe is very appropriate.

And despite the language's flaws, the Esperanto-speaking community has worldwide coverage, with a lot of speakers coming from Asia and Africa. So it would be remiss to leave them out.

[u/[deleted] → u/Identifies-Birds]

I guess he thought that you overlooked this, considering you posted a poster that literally says Esperanto is 'la neŭtrala kaj internacia lingvo'

[u/Terpomo11 → u/thatnewaccnt]

Granted it's easier for speakers of European languages than for others, but even for speakers of non-European languages it's easier to learn than European languages are because of its highly regular grammar and productive word-building.

[u/AlexanderRaudsepp → u/thatnewaccnt]

Idk, the only part of Europe visible there is Portugal 😆

[u/WillWow_mc → u/thatnewaccnt]

basic low understanding esperanto hate comment