Thursday, February 6, 2014

Espiritu Esperanto

Yes, it’s Espiritu Esperanto, the superhero who speaks only in Esperanto! He can save the day for you, with a vast array of super powers, but you must be able to tell him what you need in Esperanto, or else he won’t help you.

Sorry, it’s the best I could think of to try to force people to learn Esperanto, the language of the future created long ago that nobody seems to want to speak.

Or, wait; maybe this is even better: Espiritu Esperanto is a demonic poltergeist that attacks and haunts you, making your life a living hell, until you learn to speak Esperanto. Then you can ask it politely to leave you alone and go bother someone else, and it will go on to torment another Esperanto illiterate (until they finally learn to speak Esperanto!).

No? That wouldn’t even work to make people want to speak Esperanto if it was a real, provable entity that strikes everyone? Sigh. Oh, I give up…