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)