Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains (Page 2 of 2)

English is actually my second language

You said youself that it "DOES kind of sound like Spanish/Italian" and that it "has a couple other letters with 'hats' on them, like the French do."
It has it's bias to french and Spanish instead, and s you say it does use that special character ^ that will make it really hard to gain popularity in USA. Also, English is already the international language, french people can moan all thay want, that's a fact. Maybe it isn't decided to be an international language, but the fact that it's used as one by people from all countries makes it so anyway.*

I think that if you would want an international language with easier gramatics it would be better to make a slight adjustment of english. Though I don't think it would have much better chance of gaining enough spread than esperanto do.

Oh I might add, that except for the fact that I think that the world already have decided, I also don't like neither the sound of esperanto or it's special character, so I'm a bit biased.

*Look at this forum for instance, even though the software is created by a Swedish person swedish is only allowed in one forum, while english is used for the main parts.

Wow, Jonex, you don't know what you're talking about   Read up on Esperanto first, okay?

1:  It sounds like Spanish/Italian due to the large concentration of vowel sounds.  There's no bias toward the Spanish/Italians.  AT ALL.
2:  Any computer in the world can type the accented characters.  The accented characters are there to give the language phoneticy, so instead of having two letters for one sound (like sh, which is a digraph, Esperanto has s with a hat on top).  It has nothing to do with French.
3:  First, it's grammar, not gramatics (which shows you how much you don't know about English and just how difficult it really is), and secondly, why English?  You yourself can't even speak it properly.

I meant that amerians have problem to accept such languages(actually I find it hard to believe that they would accept any international language other than their own, but that it looks like french and sounds lkike spanish is definately not an advantage)

Wich shows that my mother language are so similar that I someimes confuses words, in swedish it's "grammatik". Where I got the s from I have to idea though :)

I for sure write english better than I write esperanto, that's why. And I'm not the only one, most people know english better than esperanto.

I say like I do in the discussion about using MB or MiB, whether or not a chenge would be to prefer, people probably will not change.
If poeple would change, and most of americans used esperanto on the internet I'd not complain actually, just as I expect french people to conform to the norm that is english today. I'd myself comform to norm if it were esperanto.

Settle down people

Jameslicious: Since you speak Esperanto, perhaps you could help this guy out? I would love to have PunBB in that language