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Guys, it's time to learn Esperanto.

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[–] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

"Countering a common criticism against Esperanto, the statistician Svend Nielsen has found no significant correlation between the number of Esperanto speakers and the similarity of a given national native language to Esperanto."

Wikipedia describing the results of this paper: https://svendvnielsen.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/explaining-the-density-of-esperanto-speakers-with-language-and-politics/