I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)
It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS
I,understand about a half of it, I speak some dutch
“What Happened? Did your computer catch a virus? Did you suddenly develop BSE [mad cow disease]?”
Between German, English, Latin, a bit of French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian that was actually pretty readable to me.
I speak English and a very little spanish, and I can read it.
Super legible and I love it.
There are a few movies done partly or entirely in Esperanto, the most famous probably being Leslie Stevens’ Incubus (1966), a horror film starring William Shatner!
Speak English, know some Spanish and German. I could read this without much hassle and now I’m in awe.
I speak English, German, French and some Itailian, so this feels pretty natural to me. It makes a lot of sense to me, actually, because that’s just an extreme example of how multilingual people actually talk.
I know English, enough French to get by, and the barest Spanish. I understood.
I love esperanto! i use it in some of the fiction i write because it’s easier to parse
I know swedish and english (and finnish but that isn’t a factor here) and could read this no problem
I am Taiwanese and I can read it lmao