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What makes a language pretty? I'm not sure I ever saw/heard one that was pretty beyond what I'd say is in the eye/ear of the beholder

But agreed on it being pretty useless outside of a few small regions / couple million speakers. I've been saying we should apply winning team joining and get to something more internationally useful, as everyone here seems to already agree we are small and that trade and cooperation has brought the current prosperity. The area I'm from, though, people clutch to local dialects as cultural heritage that should be continued to be spoken... it doesn't even have a writing system... whatever, I don't mind so long as people are okay with a useful language alongside




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