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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

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IELs Aren't a Culturally Neutral Language, Is It?

I think generally the most of the time the, the idea behind an IEL is sort of misguided. So whenever we get into one of these IELs or, or Oxlangs, we're not really in our wheelhouse. And it's kind of hard for us to get into it. Esperanto achieved its goal of being easily learned by English speakers and, and especially romance speakers. But without any, any strong culture behind it, without any economic incentive behind it, they just never go anywhere. That's a philosophical argument we can have on another show.

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