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  • (Score: 2) by Celestial on Friday May 05 2017, @02:06PM (9 children)

    by Celestial (4891) on Friday May 05 2017, @02:06PM (#504850) Journal

    Does Klingon count?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @03:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @03:14PM (#504922)

    HIja' 'oH

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:51AM (6 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:51AM (#505286) Homepage Journal

    Artificial, not natural. Nor does Elvish. There are arguments that Esperanto is on its way to becoming natural. It seems to have evolved a new suffix since it was first invented. The way Esperanto works, that's a change of grammar!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:46AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:46AM (#505326)

      Yes I remember Esperanto. I studied it in high school when I was young and naive and still believed in the value of an education. I even completed a correspondence course offered by ELNA. It was all a waste of time, both Esperanto and education in general. Education is a totally worthless endeavor with no return on investment whatsoever. Zamenhof's father was right to destroy the original notes which became the Esperanto grammar, but Zamenhof was a stubborn fool who wouldn't let his idiotic project die like it should have died.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:15PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:15PM (#505424)

        No one in their right mind takes that esper shit seriously.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:17PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:17PM (#505455)

          William Shatner got paid to speak Esperanto. If you get paid for it, it must be serious business.

          Incubus 1966 [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 07 2017, @08:27AM (1 child)

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday May 07 2017, @08:27AM (#505763) Journal

        I studied it in high school when I was young and naive and still believed in the value of an education.

        There is value in education. But education does not mean learning random things. Many people get that wrong, though.

        Education is a totally worthless endeavor with no return on investment whatsoever.

        So you see no value in being able to read and write (and thus, for example, being able to participate in this site)? Because that is part of your education. Yes, it's a part of education that is very common nowadays (it wasn't in older times), but it's education nonetheless. More so than learning useless stuff like Esperanto.

        --
        The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

        • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:41PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:41PM (#505894)

          Let me tell you what's useless. Communicating with you is useless. The only thing I'm doing right now, the only thing, is wasting my time. I gain absolutely nothing at all from participating in this site, nothing. This site is completely utterly worthless to me. I have no idea what value you think this site has. Clearly you value this site enough to create an account, which is something I will never do, and to buy a subscription, which is something else I will never do. I don't know what sick pleasure you derive from subscribing to this worthless site and I don't care to know. And let me tell you something else, reading and writing are also completely worthless. I certainly do not benefit from my ability to read and write. There is no value in being able to read when illiterate idiots can beg the literate to read for them. Maybe you haven't had the misfortune of working among highly paid complete idiots who are illiterate and make the low status losers read things to them. Because that's what happens out here in the real world where the stupid and the illiterate are valued more than the intelligent and literate. Learning to read and write was the worst mistake I ever made in my entire life, because without an education I could have become one of the elite successful uneducated people who exploit everyone around them.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by lx on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:47PM

      by lx (1915) on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:47PM (#505840)

      Elvish? Is that Sean Connery singing Love me Tender?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:53AM (#506235)

    Does Klingon count?

    I believe it works in Pentecostal churches quite well.