>>91671994Esperanto is an artificial attempt at creating a (albeit Eurocentric) Lingua Franca, when even at its time of creation the world's Lingua Franca was English, that uses a nonsense mishmash of rules and words from Romance and Slavic languages (with tiny bits of Germanic languages and Greek thrown in to make it more palatable to Continental Europeans and Britons of the time) with no appreciation for the "why"s or "therefore"s of the languages it copies. It has rules, but no reason for them.
Interslavic is really interesting to me though, because it doesn't just superficially mash random bits of languages together (because Slavic languages are all so similar in grammar and sentence structure as part of a family), compared to doing the same with languages like French, English and Mongol (one Romance, one Germanic, one Altaic) and hoping it works out. Interslavic doesn't intentionally butcher grammar for artificiality (because it's already so similar to begin with) where Esperanto does, which is why I like it comparatively.
