14 November 2025 - universal languages

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Consider universal languages. Math is universal. That's why so many refuse to learn it. Music is universal. That's why it comes in so many incompatible varieties. Esperanto was made to be universal, which is why less than 0.1% of people speak it. Of all supposed universal languages, surely nonsense is the most widely relied on.

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