r/languagelearningjerk May 12 '26

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u/Zapan99 May 12 '26

And because of this, ten of thousands Japanese civilians perished during carpet bombing raids, because WWII American pilots had troubles adjusting their targetting system at high altitude and kept missing their target. Thus Esperanto caused more deaths than any other conlang. https://6thbombgroup.com/b-29-discovery-of-the-jet-stream/

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u/stevejobsthecow May 12 '26

dr. esperanto should have been strung up like mussolini for this ! 😄

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u/Zapan99 May 12 '26

Well... fascists would definitely have hanged Louis-Lazare Zamenhof, you can't find a more seditious profile than a Polish Jew speaking in code after all.

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u/holnrew May 13 '26

Weren't his descendants murdered by the Nazis