when learning languages, many times native speakers will be too polite to correct you

unless they're kids.

in esperanto, everybody* learns it when they're a teen/adult/not from birth

so they all act like kids and correct you incessantly even if they're 60 years old.

@tcql

solution: disallow language teaching until people are of legal age in their respective countries

@sydneyfalk
😂 until children are 16 they may not speak at all, only gesture wildly at the things they want.

@tcql

that sounds about as good as most of my solutions, TBQH

@sydneyfalk @tcql Something about this seems ... inefficient...

@sendoshin @tcql

Huh. I guess I don't see it. What is it? O_O

@sydneyfalk @tcql I mean, setting aside that we've been doing essentially that for quite some time with the whole "children are to be seen, not heard" business, there's a reason we use language as adults, after all, and it's mostly so we can communicate more clearly than gesturing and grunting would allow.

Now, if we allow them some form of sign language instead of _just_ gesturing at stuff... That would be a completely different story.

@sendoshin @tcql

it'd be a completely different way of screwing things up entirely, yes

@tcql @sendoshin

not as bad as like

"What if we only let humans hear/speak Tolkien's Elvish until 20"

but BAD all the same

@sendoshin @tcql

(incidentally, "we only let humans hear/speak Tolkien's Elvish until 20" is literally how you destroy humanity entirely)

@tcql @sendoshin

"What happened? Why were all the cities set on fire? Why were all the nuclear weapons launched onto Antarctic targets to form the troll face from those stupid meme pictures?! Why are there only a hundred human beings left?"

"Eh...Eh..."

"TALK, DAMMIT!"

"...Elvish."

AND HUMANITY ENDS

@sydneyfalk @tcql @sendoshin

<image of Charlton Heston on his knees on the sand at the base of the Argonnath> YOU DAMN DIRTY ELVES, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???

...or, in Tamarian:

Charlton Heston, on his knees, in the sand. The sand of the statue. Charlton Heston, when civilization fell.

@woozle @tcql @sendoshin

Heston sees the face of the statue. The statue is in the sand. Heston's fist closes and Heston shouts in frustration.

The world does not care. The world cannot any more.

@sydneyfalk @tcql @sendoshin

...the entire global supply of can having been destroyed in The Great Canflagration of 2018 by an international alliance of far-right governmental and quasi-governmental elements.

....for security purposes, of course.

@woozle @tcql @sendoshin

There are no other purposes.

There are only security purposes.

ALL HAIL SECURITY PURPOSES
ALL HAIL SECURITY PURPOSES
ALL HAIL SECURITY PURPOSES