Esperanto

It's great!  If you want to say the opposite of something, you just put "mal" before it.

theism= tiesmo
atheist= atiesmo

Wait.  What?  That's fucking stupid.  What is the point of making a prefix you don't even use?  It should either be "netiesmo" (not theist) or "maltiesmo" (strong atheist "god doesn't exist").

esperanto is faggotniggershit tier language

It doesn't even follow it's own rules

2 cents' worth from an Esperanto speaker:

"teismo" and "ateismo" (not "tiesmo" and "atiesmo") are a (long-standing) glitch - and an optional one at that.  You are absolutely allowed to use regular derivation to say "neteismo" and "malteismo" for "atheism".  In fact, you can take it one step further:  use regular derivation and the perfectly good existing Esperanto roots "Dio" (God) and "-ismo" (belief system) to form "diismo" (theism), and "nediismo" and "maldiismo" (atheism).  As an Esperanto speaker, I definitely prefer the fully regular and derived "diismo", "nediismo" and "maldiismo" over the other less-regular and/or less-derived forms.  I additionally dislike the word "teismo" because of its ambiguity (is it "belief in God", or is it "belief in tea" [te-o = tea, -ismo = belief system]?).

Esperanto speakers can vote on vocabulary with their feet.  Hopefully, these words are on their way out, even if they still appear in the Plena Vortaro de Esperanto.

>>4
Sorry to interrupt with this offtopic message. Were you taught Esperanto by your parents as your mother language, or do you use it every day as your preferred language to communicate with family or friends? Not trying to argue or disagree, I'm just interested.

>>2 here
just saying I would learn esperanto if all of the speakers weren't massive faggots about it

>>5
Neither.  My mother tongue is English, and I speak acquired but native-level French with my (wife-children-inlaws) family and some colleagues and friends.  Like most Esperanto speakers, I learned it as an adult and use it with some of my acquaintances, but not nearly as much as I use my native, home or work language(s).  It has taken me a significant amount of time and effort get to where I am in French, including marrying a native French speaker and living in a French-speaking country for several years; amazingly, with a much, *MUCH* smaller investment, I have come to speak Esperanto almost as well as I do French.

>>6
I hope you don't think that of me :-), although I believe I see where you're coming from.  FWIW, not all Esperanto speakers are creepily obsessed about it.  A friend and former colleague of mine and I have lunch once a week, speaking Esperanto, but we talk about everything but - work, life, human stupidity, anything but Esperanto.  I'm certainly not the only Esperanto speaker out there who thinks that even though it's a cool and fun language, it's not an object of worship (sly tie-back to the original topic of this thread :-).

>>7
You don't seem like one of them. I'd equate them to most vegetarians...most people really don't give a shit that they're doing something different, after all, it's their body and life, I don't care what you speak or eat. But they go around acting like vegetarianism (esperanto) is so much better and healthier (such a better language) when in fact it's not. Not that it's bad, but it's not what they make it out to be.

I wouldn't mind learning esperanto, but I don't want to be associated with all of the faggots that speak it. Especially all of the faggots who act like it's THE next lingua franca and that it should replace everything else.

>>8
Just learn what you wanna learn, dude. Nobody's going to give a shit if you speak Esperanto...Except the people on /lang/ apparently. Seriously, you people turn into massive bitches whenever someone mentions Eo. It's painful to watch. IRL nobody cares.

>>9
I plan on learning what I want
herp

Speaking of ateismo:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ateista-Tutmonda-Esperanto-Organizo/115423301844152?ref=ts

>>11
exactly what the world needs
a bunch of edgy 15 year old atheist esperantists

>>11
dear god

i am an atheist and i speak esperanto, but this looks terrible

>>13
better like it then faggot

OP is trying to troll in two fronts: the first one, atheism vs. bullshit; the second one, natural languages vs. bullshit.

Good work, OP. I'm proud.

>>15
implying God doesn't exist

>>16
| Implying Tooth Fairy, Thor, Yahweh, Centaurs and bullshit like that exist...

>>17
Implying that the money just magically appears under my pillow...

>>17
implying you can imply correctly
implying God, the tooth fairy, santa, and the easter bunny don't exist