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splat on May 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes

If we're after a common language, why not Esperanto? It's simpler than English and certainly simpler than Mandarin.

VeejayRampay on May 16, 2012 [–]

Esperanto has a huge bias towards latin-based languages. It's FAR from being universal.

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