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This is imperial mentality. Dutch is the language of the Netherlands not English and they have the right to use it.

If we follow your line Dutch will go the same way as Welsh or Basque.





And the dutch aren’t very well known for their imperial mentality?

The Dutch were ridiculously bad at imposing their language on other countries. Little trace of it remains in Indonesia, or New York. Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten have never taken to it. South Africa is kind of the exception except even then Afrikaans has played second fiddle to English for 150 years, and they have sought to differentiate their language from Dutch in more recent times.

Portugal has been better at that game when you consider its size.


> If we follow your line Dutch will go the same way as Welsh or Basque.

No it won't. Mirroring important announcements in two languages is a thing most countries do, and their languages are far from extinct.


It already is, mate. There are people who move to countries such as the Netherlands, Iceland and Sweden and insist on using English all the time. I've even heard of Dutch using English with each other. There are people who've attempted this in Spain, but it's harder there since there are so many Spanish speakers.

The ongoing non-adoption of Esperanto remains one of the world's many tragedies.

Yes and no. Esperanto has strengths and weaknesses, and some see it as Eurocentric, but let's just leave it at that.

Every language has strengths and weaknesses. Perfect is the enemy of good. If your definition of 'good' is 'relatively easy and technically international', Esperanto is very suitable. (Not to mention way better than the status quo, in any case.)



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