That's what someone trying to hide the fact that they're actually speaking Spanish would say

https://samandmax.fandom.com/wiki/Esperanto_Bookstore
^ thats my evidence

in Sam & Max save the world, there is an esperanto bookstore out of business, therefore I can't read any of your works. This also proves Esperanto and English can't coexist in America. You seem obsessed with optimization and saving time but you can't seem to realize you wasted a year (31,556,952,000 milliseconds) of your life learning a language that will never rise to global prominence

Comes back and drops two of the best threads that have been on this forum in months. Truly a generational talent.

That's a damn video game. You're a citing a video game world for your evidence?

There exists esperanto bookstores in the real world and online (librejo & Katalogo de UEA & Literaturo).

Again, it already is. There is a U.S esperanto association.

I spent 3 months learning the actual language itself (actually, it really felt like 2 tbh). Right now, I'm not learning the language, but rather using it. I only try to learn a new radical if its actually needed, otherwise, I just use word combination.

I'm really just trying to unlearn habits that came from learning how to comprehend english.

Esperanto already is rising to global prominence, on a quantitative scale sure, but it will make a qualitative difference. a hundred years ago, one man was an esperantist, hundred years later, is now way more (around 1 or 2 million or whatever) esperantists.

I wasn't obsessed, I made a suggestion. (bad wording lol.)

If anything, most foreigners waste a lot of time being forced to learn english, like in China and Japan.

This is some jordan type shit lets fucking go dude

https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/UZcrF_Fh7e2S_nR8QEbzPhZZGDyXxPML7LAwy3i7U18.jpg

if your goal was to communicate with other players why did u learn a language only spoken by one guy you’ve met so far

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Bold of you to claim that you can comprehend english when you’ve failed to recognize sarcasm or accurately understand people’s arguments like 100+ times on these forums

Sarcasm requires context ahead of time to be weary of it. and again, i'm already sick of irony poisoning.

I did understand them. It's they that misunderstand me. and every time you say that stuff, you show little to no evidence of such a thing occurring.

and even then, I apologize afterward now-a-days, so I don't get your fucking problem.

you changed the goalposts from "no one speaks it" and "its useless" to, "its just one dude". quite bullshitting. that was using the language then, even if only in a single match; hence it was useful.

but let me use an inverse question: why should Chinese, Africans, and, Japanese be forced to learn English if they're never gonna leave their countries period?

bro are u stupid people aren’t forced to learn languages they choose to do so because of its utility in understanding popular culture or communicating with a larger group of people (both of which your meme language is lacking)

u cant actually be dying on this hill that “i was too stupid to learn spanish and also clearly don’t even fully understand english, therefore the entire world should learn this new language that i actually was successful in learning”

this is quite entertaining so i hope you don’t stop posting but for your own sake you might want to just find an esparanto forum or something lol you seem to be getting more and more frustrated/angry (see: increasing use of the word “fucking”) and are pretty much just subjecting yourself to public ridicule at this point (maybe after 5 more pages you will magically convince the entirety of the EU tf2 scene to learn your language but it seems Unlikely)

Ahem (they are):

I know you're implying English populations, but:

US population: 330 million. + British population: 67 million.
Chinese population: 1.4 billion.
Indian population: 1.6 billion.

Please stop bullshitting out of your ass. lol. by that logic, people would want to learn mandarin more not English.

There's the ad hominem again... calling people stupid for not learning Spanish or English. again, I am not selfish like that. quit lying. (since, you seem to believe that, where did I say that exactly? cite your sources!)

Once again, no evidence means unsubstantiated claim. and it ain't any better that each responder hasn't properly responded to all of my responses in my replies.

I was indeed, because you people can barely even cite a single source for your claims. you, the one person, who used one link, linked your evidence to a video game wiki...

I'm more pissed that I thought so highly of comp players, when they act like this in reality.

Just admit it's spanish bro come on now

No it is not! esperanto is not spanish! The hello greeting of spanish is "gracias", not, "saluton" of esperanto.

Stop fucking lying:
Esperanto grammar: https://www.akademio-de-esperanto.org/fundamento/gramatiko_angla.html
Spanish grammar: https://studyspanish.com/grammar

these sources are no way near reliable enough, its clearly spanish what you're speaking

IT IS FUCKING NOT! OMFG

What I said is "saluton! mi nomiĝas amikdikt¨!

least spanish esperanto vocab https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/saludo#Spanish

I heard, „¡saludo! mi nombre es amikdikt!" What are you talking about dude?

THAT IS NOT WHAT I FUCKING SAID! STOP FUCKING LYING!

And you don't know shit about the language; so stop acting like you're an expert.

idk why you keep comparing native speaker populations, that doesn't matter when english is the defacto global lingua franca.

this is not how you calculate the number of speakers of a language, both ethnologue and the cia world factbook report that english is the most widely spoken language in the world by a large margin.

you also missed his point completely lol. it's not about the total number of speakers in the world, it's about the pool of people you want to talk to. in the tf2 community, this pool is mostly made up of people that speak english, so it's the most useful language to learn

edit: got sniped lol but also i find it really funny that you assumed every american speaks english as their first language. assuming all indians speak the same language is even more egregious

He isn't lying though you were literally speaking spanish

He is lying. I'M NOT! Slow down the audio and reinterpet it again, if you want to check!

my spanish mate (we have spanish in europe not esperanto) said ur speaking spanish

I have listened to the audio at least 8 time and you are very much so speaking spanish

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/673716307090210828/1181372276495626240/in-s3e5-chicanery-of-better-call-saul-during-chucks-rant-he-v0-1ok3n0zq0nea1.png?ex=6580d1ab&is=656e5cab&hm=ab662d90bd7c0ef91e30fb159ecdeac33d10cc2f354717b15e492b658db42c76&;

I know, but the dude was referring to a specific group, I contextually thought it was of English citizens, not speakers. (and here is another example where context isn't everything!)

In that case, where exactly did you get that info? From what I checked on the site:
* Mandarin: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cmn/
* English: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/eng/

Uh, both say more than 1 billion, so I can't tell which is more popular; but either way, I don't see any of their sources. (and btw see this about ethnolouge: I can't pay for their database https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-largest-linguistics-database-getting-too-expensive-some-researchers.)

Also, did you seriously quote the CIA of all things? The same people that regime change countries to force them to speak English.

So then why did he mention a "larger group of people"?:

because U.S and Britain citizens aren't as big as Chinese or Indian, even accounting for foreign speakers of english.

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Lol no. most English tf2 youtubers are absolute garbage.

I didn't assume those demographics, spoke one language. I just included them because of them are not speaking english, but another language instead.

Your reply is wrong and irrelevant in any context you read his post

I provided a source and the list of most spoken languages is very easy to find on the site (took me under 20 seconds blind). Please attempt to check sources yourself before disputing them

The CIA World Factbook is a very reliable and highly regarded source

A larger group of people does not necessarily refer to the entire population of the world, as you quoted me saying. You need to read posts before replying to them

I said nothing about tf2 youtubers. Again, please read posts before replying to them

Yes you did

Also, could you please provide a sample of you speaking Esperanto? You're speaking Spanish in the link you provided and it makes me doubt your honesty :\

Well that isn't fair at all. This is so immature. So you refuse to fairly setup any legitimate criteria. and you wonder why casual players hate y'all so much.

Well where is it then, if I'm supposedly so stupid?

Unfortunately, for political text, it is. but you're trusting the U.S government here of all things; the same government imposing English everywhere.

I didn't refer to the entire world population. I thought of the U.S and British POPULATION.

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I FUCKING AM!!!

I didn't think you did. I was just thinking of most of the english tf2 youtube sphere, which is god awful.

Stop fucking lying. I did not.

I AM NOT SPEAKING SPANISH OMFG!

I'll record another audio, because that one isn't working; it will be very slow. if You accuse me of fucking lying again, then its the last one I am producing.

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