That's awesome! I have a huge fascination with IE languages (mostly Romance and Germanic, but I'm slowly branching out to other families and beyond the IE realm), which was a huge part of why I got into Esperanto in the first place. Most auxiliary languages provide their own built-in crash course in the inherited lexicon of Latin, too, which is a perq if you're into that kind of thing.mimosa wrote:I don't speak Esperanto, but I do have a nodding acquaintance with some other Indo-European languages, so some light shines between the words.
I'm also just into auxlangs on their own, though. I don't really buy into the whole "global second language" thing they all claim to strive for, but the communities that the bigger ones have cultivated are always full of awesome people. I dare say the spirit of most of those communities has a great deal in common with the spirit of most Linux communities -- high motivation, intellectual curiosity, a love for free culture, and interestingly, both are often full of very talented programmers. Very cool stuff!