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English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

  • Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

  • Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

  • Unite humanity with a living new language.

  • Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

  • Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

  • Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

  • Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

  • Balance personal rights with social duties.

  • Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

  • Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

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How’d that work out for Esperanto? :thinking:

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fromFor a good cause!

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Is that foreplay? Or a demonstration of oscillatory motion?

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Yes.

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Other than that Shatner film! The whole goal was to write a global language that was easy to learn and would cut through all the cultural/linguistic divisions on earth. Turns out that didn’t help much. Very utopian, though…

And we just started watching Mr. Robot, and I believe that clip is show in the first episode…

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I tried to learn Esperanto through Duolingo, but it didn’t take.

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I’m currently working on Irish in duolingo… I’ve been doing it for about 250 days now. I do a lesson or 2 everyday. I also just got a book of short stories in Irish for beginners, but I have not started reading it yet.

The Irish consulate in ATL actually does Irish classes, too, so I might go take classes there as well one day in the future, so I can work on the talking part with others.

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Pretty sure nothing really takes with duolingo.

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I think the trick is that you have to bring it into the real world… You lose any language skills you don’t use, so…

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:thinking:

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How strange.

I’ve never liked chimpanzees in movies or TV. For me it was a kind of an early uncanny valley, way before the term was invented.

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I know, I remember hearing about J. Fred Muggs and that tv-spy-parody show that featured chimps when I was a kid, and thinking somehow it’s not right. I didn’t know exactly how it wasn’t right, but I knew it wasn’t.

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eeeep

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Now, apologize to Kenya for the murder of the Mau-Maus, Yer Majesty.

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