Example sentences for: esperanto

How can you use “esperanto” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Before you know it, you are saying to yourself, “Why should I bother to learn a whole new grammer and vocabulary of Esperanto when I can learn some sort of lingua franca (English or French, for example) which at least has an extensive literature to offer?

  • The lingua franca of commercial America has done what Esperanto could not: achieve universality.

  • Now that certain (very literate) people have taken hold of Esperanto and published novels and poetry in it, its chief function as a means of basic communication has been violated, and with the onset of its sophistication it has become more complex, thus defeating its original purpose.

  • If Esperanto is aspiring to become a “real” language, then it must begin to behave like one and, before long, it will begin to suffer the same “weaknesses” that natural languages suffer--polysemy and pleurisemy.

  • Hazy international law makes the tribunals "the legal equivalent of gathering people from all over the world to put on a play in Esperanto that no one has really learned."


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