CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@kubofhromoslav@esperanto.masto.host @benny@kirche.social @proedie@mastodon.green @kinkkong@kinkycats.org @Pare@sociale.network @valhalla@social.gl-como.it @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu In practice this also results in a different problem, where some people will introduce synonymous words since their either don’t know other words already exist, or they know but think their word brings an important quality or nuance the existing words are missing. Quality or nuance which isn’t always universally agreed on and often gets dropped in the process of adoption. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://jam.xwx.moe/emoji/Gutkatoj/gutkato_malgaja.png" title=":gutkato_malgaja:" />

So quite often Esperanto will have multiple words for the exact same idea, making it unnecessarily tedious to learn the language. I don’t think that’s a flaw of the language, though, more like an inevitable flaw of humanity that any international language would have to deal with once popular enough. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://jam.xwx.moe/emoji/Gutkatoj/gutkato_ŝultrumas.png" title=":gutkato_ŝultrumas:" />

@benny@kirche.social @kubofhromoslav@esperanto.masto.host @jztusk@mastodon.social @proedie@mastodon.green @kinkkong@kinkycats.org @Pare@sociale.network @valhalla@social.gl-como.it @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ‘Vid’ means ‘see’ and ‘rigard’ means ‘look’. An invisible person is ‘ne·vid·ebl·a’, since you can’t see them even if you’re looking at them. (Inversely, you could say the sun is ‘vid·ebl·a’ but ‘ne·rigard·ebl·a’, since you can see it but can’t directly look at it. Well, you can, but only once.) <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://jam.xwx.moe/emoji/Gutkatoj/gutkato_mojosa.png" title=":gutkato_mojosa:" />

There are countless instances where you could have either few words with very broad meanings to cover many use cases, or a single, more specialised word for each single use case. Both extremes have their advantages and disadvantages, and Esperanto isn’t naturally optimised for one or the other. <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://jam.xwx.moe/emoji/Gutkatoj/gutkato_kontenta.png" title=":gutkato_kontenta:" />