Your fan-boy's cute article non-withstanding, any competent linguist will tell you that the phonology, grammar, vocabulary, and semantics of Esperanto are based on the western Indo-European languages, and nothing else. Funny that bit in article about the having the "spirit of Hebrew", as I can assure you Esperanto has none of the phonology, grammar, vocabulary nor semantics of any semite language.

Persian is a western language, being Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Hence it was an easy addition to your exclusively western language repertoiure.

That wikipedia that just proves a few esperanto speakers wasted an enormous amount of time to make a language wikipedia of little practical use.

I'd rather my students not think of white space as significant. that's so gay

funny, I programmed in Pascal on my microcomputer in the early 80s. BASIC was the shit sandwich choice.

Yes, our BSD Unix came with the source and multiple compilers, just for the asking.

The TRS-80, hah, that was late 70s. The PDPs first came out in 60s.

I tellz ya, deez cute but iggernit young punks.....git yer tricycle off mah lawn!

oh, it exists all right. But unusable for serious work, no one is going to hire me to develop in Perl 6.

Not whining, I've done plenty of Perl 5 development over the last 20 years. Sorry to see Larry try to turn Perl 6 into mutant Swiss Army Knife with fold-out condom and umbrella and eggbeater and cuckcoo clock.

the guts of a thousand whales fed through a wood chipper....

Doesn't change the fact those people are using western constructs; again *Your Esperanto is a Latinate Language* It's totally western.

How many eastern languages do you speak? zero, I'll bet. Your only frame of reference is western languages.

Funny how I hear these tired worn arguments from people who can speak Esperanto. You have an obscure fringe hobby, there are more people who have used pig-latin in their childhood than who will ever speak Esperanto.

on the other hand, we can all enjoy internet pr0n regardless of language being spoken or grunted or shouted

wrong, China is a Sino-Tibetan language. That language group has more first-language speakers than Indo-European, Sino-Tebetan languages includes by the way northeast India (shame on you for assuming all Indians speak an Indo-European langauge)

http://stedt.berkeley.edu/html/STfamily.html

Arabic is member of the Semitic language family.

that's just silly. Esperanto is a Latinate language, and thus suitable solely for western thought and concepts. We already have a logical, consistent Latinate language that isn't an artificial construct and in fact has over a million speakers, as opposed to Esperanto's few thousand (inflated lies to the contrary): Latin! Might as well waste one's time learning Klingon.

You've convinced me. We should use pigs; they have more developed sense of smell anyway.

That in no way is a valid argument against secession. A seceding entity need not care what the Supreme Court's opinion is. Since our federal government is already committing far more grievous transgressions against the life, liberty and security of the people than England did in the 18th century, a similar declaration of independence is of course justified.

used for build and ports, but who's writing any new things in it. I make BSD appliance software, but haven't done Perl in six years.

Perl 6 spec is still in development, not done yet. Rakudo is an implementation of something that is not done yet, and pugs even less so. Anyone who uses this for any remotely production related is insane. Face it folks, Larry killed Perl.

if taken when blood sugar drops dangerously low, then yes, should work wonderfully.

The foundation of the economies of most the world are continuing to collapse, the spending of the common man that drives it continues to decrease. Never mind the central banks efforts to pump the markets with their injections, the ability to generate real wealth is being destroyed. Already young college degree holders are already either unemployed or waiting tables. If your college won't be 80% or more paid for, take your money and buy tangible goods that will hold their value as everything paper based collapses. Spend your time learning a skill that will be worth something in a depression.