esperanto

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1. An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.

   “Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members.”

2. (figuratively)Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.

   “The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.”

   “[Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]”

   “I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.”

   “[…]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.”

   “The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.”