fangirlandthreequarters:

dr-archeville:

demiurge1138:

systlin:

kittyknowsthings:

andishallemerge:

holey-jona-d:

a-magpie-witchling:

seiokona:

cinary:

I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)

It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS

I,understand about a half of it, I speak some dutch

“What Happened? Did your computer catch a virus? Did you suddenly develop BSE [mad cow disease]?”

Between German, English, Latin, a bit of French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian that was actually pretty readable to me.

I speak English and a very little spanish, and I can read it. 

Super legible and I love it.

There are a few movies done partly or entirely in Esperanto, the most famous probably being Leslie Stevens’ Incubus (1966), a horror film starring William Shatner!

… I understood this pretty much completely. i hadn’t realized i could learn esperanto so easily at this point.

While I love created languages, the language in the picture is Europanto, but much of the commentary is about Esperanto. These are not the same language, although they were created for similar purposes, and the creator of Europanto intentionally modeled the name of the language after Esperanto. Europanto fizzled out a little, but Esperanto is still going strong! Esperanto looks a little different- I typed a familiar sentence into Google Translate and this is the Esperanto output:

Sinjoro kaj sinjorino Dursley de numero kvar, Privet Drive, estis fieraj diri, ke ili estas perfekte normalaj, dankon multe.

A little harder to read to the untrained eye than Europanto!