Re: Shall We All Leave At Once?

Phil Bowles wrote:

How are you defining successful? It's commonly claimed that Klingon
has more speakers than Esperanto.

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but it's surely an irrelevant argument given that both languages were artificially produced and that one is a failed experiemnt and the other is for sad losers whose neighbours think that the speaker's house is actually empty.

--
marc

"If your dog were to mount your cat and penetrate its anus that would
still be rape even if your cat consented to it." -- Aggy
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