01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace
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The Universal Language of Peace
The story i liked the most about esperanto and its kind of optimistic naivete was there a whole bunch of people in commerce who were like, esperanto, great idea, universal language. And then basically it fell apart because they failed to maintain, maintained the drive. They were insufficiently peaceful. Maybe there is a kernel of esperantos selling itself as the universal language of peace seems to have done a lot for its longevity. It's just a pity that they're doing it with such a terrible language. Another language where some one tried to capture this idea of universal communication, but from a completely different was bliss symbolics. I remember reading about blis symbolics a
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