Esperanto, the Aggressor Language

[@Vevey2004]

Zamenhof would be turning in his grave if he knew his language of peace was ever used as a training tool for war!

[@regedit33]

Tio ĉi kaj ankaŭ kiel tiuj soldatoj aĉas uzante la lingvon. That plus how much these soldiers suck at using the language.

[@skyandra9654]

Probably the most interesting comment in the whole bunch, even 7 years later.

[@mk-1579]

Se vi volas pacon, preparu vin por batalo. Estas pli bone esti militisto en ĝardeno ol ĝardenisto en milito. If you seek peace, prepare for war. It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.

[@mayormccheese9093]

Kopu kaj seethu

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

@@regedit33 Mi tute konsentas kaj ankaŭ amas, ke ne nur mi tajpas komentojn tiel ĉi! I totally agree and also love that not only I write comments in this way!

[@jamesbrown1581]

Personally I don't mind Esperanto being used by the army, I think that makes it cooler, and you can hardly call what they were speaking Esperanto, they pronounced everything so badly.

[@regedit33]

Ili tiom aĉas uzi ĝin ke mi ne scias se ili igas plej mojosa la lingvon :-( They are so bad at using it I'm not sure that makes it cooler :-(

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

@@regedit33 La "J"oj 😂

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

I consider it gross honestly. Esperanto was a meant to be a language of peace and understanding.

[@potetnamnbaknamn895]

Esperanto users should be glad that anyone would even use that terrible goobeligook for anything.

[@Siberius-]

@@potetnamnbaknamn895 - Could you go into further detail in regards to your statement?

[@Marlon7840]

Proud to be an Esperantist! (Y)

[@leelewis926]

I used to work with a gentleman (Vince Grande in the City of Orlando) who had a military background and was trained in "The Agressor Language" (i.e., Esperanto). I always found it to be strange the the most peace oriented language was being used to portray "the bad guys." *** Mi kutimis labori kun sinjoro (Vince Grande en la Urbo Orlando), kiu havis militan fonon kaj estis trejnita pri "La Agresa Lingvo" (t.e. Esperanto). Mi ĉiam trovis strange, ke la plej pacema lingvo estis uzata por portreti "la malbonulojn."

[@hunterketch989]

Estas faras kompreno se ili povus faras la soldatojn paroli simplajn kriojn facile.

[@leelewis926]

@@hunterketch989 - Mi pensas, ke vi provas diri: "Estas senco, se ili povus faciligi la soldatojn paroli simplajn kriojn." Tamen mi ne scias, kion vi celas per "simplaj krioj".

[@hunterketch989]

@@leelewis926 Dankon por la retrokuplo, kaj "krio" signifas "a shout" (angle), aux ecx lau miaj tradukoj.

[@fontru1]

This represents what Esperanto was in that time: the enemy for the capitalist system and the enemy for the communist system too. Communist thought that all the esperantist were secret agents of capitalism and vice versa. Interesting picture! jejeje! :)

[@FourOf92000]

I was thinking they did it for practical purposes: it already exists, it's (by design) easy (and therefore fast) to learn, but very few people already know it, so it sounds and effectively is sufficiently foreign to serve the purpose. (Similar to how _The Painted Bird,_ a movie about a Jewish kid trying to survive in a war-torn, violently anti-Semitic Eastern Europe, used Interslavic-that way you don't have to pin your "bad guy" role one country in particular.) Granted, that pronunciation is abominable, so whether it's Esperanto remains an open question.

[@Siberius-]

Esperanto seems perfectly inline with Socialist values. I'm unsure why it wouldn't be... or why one might think otherwise (if one has an accurate view of what Socialism is).

[@basilicaangela4638]

🤣

[@chibiromano5631]

@@Siberius- It could be both. I believe before Esperanto in the 1800s, there was movments to make Church Latin a universal language and for Latin to find itself in French, English, German, Spanish. At this time many govt were becoming secular republics so it was rejected. Ultimately when languages nationalized and were standardized (English variants were united by RP English or Queens English, German vairants all became Berliner dialect , Spanish variants< andalusian, catalan, asturian> were formed to become standard european Spanish Russian united. ) But its in this time that many of these non-romance languages (German, Russian) recieved LATIN ifnluence. We think it comes from Roman influence but in reality many languages became Germanacized or re Slavalcized in 1800s by the early 1900s they were Romanacized. It was also occuring influenced by French and early Greek, which is why we find so many Latin , Greek and French words and expression in our modern dialecst . One comparison would be China and their standardization of chinese to all variants Esperanto comes about in early 1900s but is rejected by the Right which already found Latin to be their unifier language. esperanto differs in that it aims at expanding Germanic influence into the language. Many of esperanto founders were in Hungary , at the time Austro Hungarian empire. Many of them also had ties to Yiddish. So in a way Esperanto is an alternate yiddish. that langauge also has a lot of German in it. The class lib supports Esperanto The cons supports Latin Some elements of lib and cons can be found in socsm some elemnts of lib and cons can be found in capsm essentially its what you call Fishook theory, two parallesl ways that almost immiate eachother in their own manner. But essentially in the Americans church latin fused with the American langauges like Nahuatl to form Mexican Spanish which is why it sound similar to Italian more than european spanish . English absorbed a lot of Latin influence in 1700s and 1800s In Russian langauge Ltain took influence which is why it sounds so different from other slavc langauges. But in Germany, Austria and Scnadanavia Esperanto was getting ready to take off until a man from Austria became prez of deutchland in the 40s. He expelled them and 'soccer' because it related to world order that would bring about xism. I never knew about comms doing the same to esperantos, i didn't know that. But now it's ENGLISH that is the unifier langauge. .. it pretty much took esperantos place. thats not to say esp makes a comeback.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

@@Siberius- While there is some idealogy around Esperanto, it's still a language you can use it for diverse purposes. For exemple nowadays it's used both by the Catholic Church (Radio Vatikana) and People's Republic of China (El Popola Ĉinio).

[@JeffChase]

As an Esperantist, and someone who has completed the US Army's interrogation course, I'm laughing twice as hard. I will say though that the Army's Agressor Dictionary is a pretty useful esperanta vortaro.

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Jes, se ni iam planus konkeri la mondon, ni povus uzi ĝin MDR

[@marcialvalencia2914]

Esperanto es el lenguaje de la paz,que unira en el futuro todas las naciones de la tierra, porque al no ser una lengua de ningun pais imperialista no ofende la idiosincrasia de nadie.

[@mikeillaschwartzchild9833]

¿NO RECUERDAS LA TORRE DE BABEL?

[@yusukelee9590]

@@mikeillaschwartzchild9833 es por qué el mundo no va a aprender mismo idioma ,es no qué dios quiera, lo siento mi español es muy mal ,aunque aprendiendo más los todos días ,pero esperanto quizás fantástico para nación nueva, pero para Internacional no bien, no es natural ,no es dios quiera

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

@@mikeillaschwartzchild9833 Las estupideces cristianos dicen...

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

@@yusukelee9590 Las estupideces cristianos dicen.

[@yusukelee9590]

@@TommyElijahCabelloReal Dios te bendiga Amigo

[@FourOf92000]

0:39 "here, armed forces of the fictitious anime country" _i hate to tell you, announcer man, but that's a real place_

[@jeffthevomitguy1178]

"Fictitious enemy country"

[@vaultguy4540]

Anime?

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Animea Ŝtato

[@FourOf92000]

@@jeffthevomitguy1178 let the joke happen

[@dylanakent]

It's aggressive to all armies because a language based on peace and hope would eventually put most Generals out of business.

[@weirdogirl1275]

I wonder if they even realized back then what the word esperanto even meant. We call ourselves by the same name as it’s inventor did. Espero = hope -anto = one who does Esperanto = one who hopes. If they had learned Esperanto, they should have known about the name of the language itself. Ni esperantistoj estas la esperantoj. Ni esperas por pli bona futuro, kaj pli bona mondo kie ĉiu vivas en harmonio kune. Tio estas kio ĝi signifas esti unu de ni. Please feel free to make corrections to my Esperanto. I’m still learning and would really appreciate the feedback.

[@jamesbrown1581]

Just for the record I looked up the actual Esperanto book they used to teach the Agressor guys, and it gives a pronunciation guide for esperanto. Epic fail on their parts

[@jamesbrown1581]

+James Brown (LeEpix on KZbin) It is also missing all the accent marks...

[@Pangaway]

Strange. The book has the diacritics all over the place, but not in the pronunciation section. Must be a publishing error.

[@mayormccheese9093]

Rough Translation of the speech for yuo Crocodiles "[It is time to face the challenge] once again, that has made many of your comrades before you!"

[@IM2awsme]

This video is almost a decade old, showing a video over half a century old. I find this so fascinating.

[@deniseengle4269]

Film... showing film from a half a century ago.

[@a123jam]

Ili parolas Esperanton malbone!

[@whyidie6162]

Alex Grogan-Kadonoff Tre Malbone!

[@itsohaya4096]

@@whyidie6162 tre malbonega!

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

Jes ja xDDD

[@JoBalDez]

Pues a mi me parece una buena idea, esperanto es muy sencillo y permitiría a muchas personas utilizarlo en lugar de el ingles (de pronunciación algo más complicada y algo más en general, ya que el esperanto es muy muy fácil), y podríamos hablar con cualquiera de cualquier lado, solo como lengua secundaria, para nada pretende reemplazar o sustituir las lenguas de cada uno.

[@ninjafishXD]

haha, ili ne povas parolas la "j" por pluralojn ĝusta, 0/10

[@regedit33]

0:49 Mi ne scias se devus ridi aŭ plori >< I don't know if I should laugh or cry >

[@sstlibertas6440]

*paroli *pluraloj *ĝuste

[@DoctorDrMd]

Their uniforms look like a mix between Nazi and soviet. Lol

[@Nickelbender]

And of course the empire of the evil lead by Evil Dart Vader

[@zionj104]

That's probably intentional. They were portraying a fake enemy.

[@MaverickIDN]

Their salute is also mixture of fascist and communist salute

[@AngPur]

Their uniforms were made up from US ones, but had rank on lower sleeves.

[@jt200075]

Brutal interrogation

[@RobMacKendrick]

My God that's bad Esperanto! I could hardly understand a word. They couldn't spend 5 minutes teaching the actors the super-simple rules of pronunciation?

[@carlosedepaula]

Cxi tiu filmo nur pruvas la neutralecon de la esperanto, cxar ili ne volis ofendi iun popolon specife. This film only proves how neutral esperanto really is, since they chose the language to avoid offending any people in particular.

[@mauricemartenot6129]

Seguimos esperando…

[@murdelabop]

Esperanto was in use by Aggressor forces when I was in the Army in the early 1990's. And their pronunciation was just as bad then as well.

[@Taima]

Mian dio. Ilia elparolon estas malbona. Tre, tre, malbona. My god. Their pronunciation is bad. Very, very bad.

[@artiomboyko]

aaaaaa malnecesaj akuzativoj >

[@SoraAkiraMusic]

You had me at ĵ

[@anandalusian9638]

1:55 Is this a joke or the soldier is from toledo, Spain?

[@SirBoggins]

Nope

[@dieterrooke]

La fina venko por Esperanto!

[@lucarnetrange]

Bonega ŝerco!

[@amisyev]

Mi estis surplanke rideganta -- I was literally on the floor laughing!

[@DottorHealer]

The aggressors helmets were actually really cool

[@razeno]

Nova flanko de la historio de Esperanto, por mi!

[@lucarnetrange]

Ankaŭ mi neniam antaŭe aŭdis pri tiu stranga uzo de nia lingvo.

[@someone.6259]

Ive just started learning Esperanto for the last week and I phisically cringed at the pronunciation

[@PeppermintSwirl]

God their Esperanto is terrible xD

[@thecosmos729]

Cool film! It's hard to believe the language was used in such a way!

[@JerryBearElPaso]

The pronunuciation is pretty bad!

[@karenkordes2210]

The black pyramid on the Aggressor's ID seemed a bit weird.

[@poawienfwjijnhergop]

lol at the guy pronouncing the J like Gx instead of like Y

[@OnlyARide]

Amuzas, ke Esperanto - kiu vere estas pendata tiel "la lingvo de espero" - estus uzita tiamaniere.

[@simplulo]

And there was their logo, the "circle trigon", just like I was told by a former colleague who had been in the military!

[@zedwardson]

bedaŭras mian malbonan esperanton, dum esperanto estas lingvo de paco, ĝi montras kiel ĝi povas esti uzata por trejni sur ne-denaska lingvo sen ofendi nacio. sorry for my bad esperanto, while esperanto is a language of peace, it shows how it can be used to train on a non-native language without offending a nation.

[@MCDreng]

Imagine being in the army just to larp and speak bad Esperanto. hahaha.

[@claudioproteo3039]

That “agressor nation” was too clearly a badly mimicked Soviet Union, but then Russian was too difficult a language to use in training and actually using any ethnic language would be politically complicated. Ironically the “language of peace” was chosen precisely for its simplicity and neutrality. But only Americans could think of a bad Hollywood-movie villanesque enemy using it. Hitler, Stalin and their kind were no fans of Esperanto nor of its internal idea.

[@TheBadAntidote]

Saluton el Italio

[@soybernardus]

They don't speak it well, the pronunciation is wrong. And this is not in the documentary.

[@janisport23]

Mi ne povas aŭdi kion ili diras

[@jorgegordillo791]

Ankaŭ mi ne povis. Eble iu havas la tekston...

[@itoaraziofficial5048]

Ĉi doloras. This hurts.

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

I call it gross. Zamenhoff intended for Esperanto to be an auxiliary language for the purpose of world peace, not a tool for war.

[@itoaraziofficial5048]

@@TommyElijahCabelloReal Precisely!!

[@mohammedjalloh7658]

Hmd, ilia esperanto estis tre malbonege!

[@EsperantaStelo]

@EsperantoDocumentary yeah, i know, but anyway, i don't think it's so difficult to teach the actors how to pronounce words in Esperanto... I think that with a 5 minutes long class to all at the same time this would have been solved... but i'm quite used to hear bad esperanto (incubus is also awful...)

[@vital427]

Seems like regular American foreign language acquisition. American courtroom Latin is just as awful.

[@itoaraziofficial5048]

Kiu instruis ilin paroli Esperanton?! Mi esperas, ke ili estis maldungitaj!

[@ChildrenOfRadiation]

Ha! Mi ĉiam sciis, ke Usono estas la amiko de homaranismo!

[@Siberius-]

Wild stuff.

[@spets4265]

Reading through the comments made me wonder, is there such a thing as 'good or well spoken' Esperanto? lmao its made up

[@thecosmos729]

There is supposed to be a certain way that the words and letters are pronounced, and I believe that they did not learn that properly. Since Esperanto is based on Romance languages, it is supposed to be spoken like one, specifically like Italian.

[@thecosmos729]

For example, they mispronounce the plural "j" and say it like the sound of English "j" or "g" like in "giraffe" instead of pronouncing more like a "y" or an "i" like in "hi." So, like something like "kaj" which should be pronounced with the "k" sound with the ending of a sound like the word "eye," so like "k eye" would be pronounced with an English j sound.

[@hoffenwurdig1356]

“ ... a la kaŭzo, porquio tel multaj de vi cameradoj poriras anto vi.” “... on account of the cause, the reason why so many of your comrades have gone before.” As Mr. Chase has pointed out, this is poor Esperanto, yet it's better than nothing. Although I'm not fluent in the language, I was already aware that it translates to "one who hopes." I'm not ignorant of the ethical implications of using Esperanto for such purposes. We can discuss this issue respectfully. No one retaliates against us for disagreeing with any "official" ideology regarding the use of Esperanto for military purposes. That indicates that some hope still prevails.

[@carsonpiano1]

Esperanto vivas!

[@leonvat]

Esperantistoj invados la Usonon ))) Komence de Kapitolo )))

[@ostbagen]

Makes Incibus sound nice.

[@sanchoodell6789]

This is the new 'National Esperanto Army' or La Esperanto-Armeounaligned

[@damskovc]

Oh... The horrible pronunciation.

[@ingjanpospisil]

Learn more at: esperantodocumentary.com/en/about-the-film.html (the upper hyperlink doesn't work)

[@Parsa9]

Jes, rigardu la realan registaran trejnado-libron por la Agresanto Lingvo. Serĉo Google ebooks por "Esperanto the Aggressor Language". Yes, look at the real government training book for the Aggressor Language. Search Google ebooks for "Esperanto the Aggressor Language."

[@Siriox9102]

Es una parodia....

[@jal123me]

Kion la Infero, kial ili ĉiam fari tion?

[@oickif]

¿De qué estás hablando? ¡Esto no es su "trasfondo"!

[@daniellesottas5967]

Le choix de l'Espéranto pour représenter la langue de l'ennemi n'est pas pertinent (sauf pour inciter à l'apprendre !). Il est tellement facile...

[@ODoudo]

hahahaha!!!... Ridinda!

[@ЛюдмилаФедосенко-ь7н]

Благодарю.

[@damarisokseniuk7626]

Mi ne komprenas angla lingvon..

[@TommyElijahCabelloReal]

Ĉu kio estas via hejma lingvo?

[@greatroyzito]

It sure as hell ain't Hollywood either.

[@ghostyman666]

Creo que espanol es lo mejor porque se mas usada y la suena esta mejor.

[@budtib]

Nekredeble amuza :)

[@sstlibertas6440]

La Esperantaj komentoj de ĉi-tiu filmeto estas pli malbonaj ol tiu de la miltistoj en la filmeto

[@zionj104]

oh my gosh, they're pronouncing the Js like English Js smh

[@beziko]

Mi ne sciis pri tio :D

[@ZachWhitworth]

Ho ve...

[@dayanidhitiwari9465]

good language

[@bibleandlife4667]

TRUMPETARO DE LA PLANO DE SAVO DE DIO AL KREDANDANTOJ LAŬ BIBLIO: - Konsu, ke vi havas pekon: Romans 3:23 23 CXar cxiuj pekis kaj mankas al la gloro de Dio; La puno de peko: Romanoj 6:23 23 Ĉar la salajro de peko estas morto; sed la donaco de Dio estas eterna vivo per Jesuo Kristo, nia Sinjoro. Jesuo fariĝis nia Savanto: John 3:16 16 Ĉar Dio tiel amis la mondon, ke Li donis Sian solenaskitan Filon, por ke ĉiu, kiu kredas al li, ne pereu, sed havu eternan vivon. Mark 16:16 16 Kiu kredos kaj baptigxos, tiu estos savita; sed kiu ne kredos, tiu estos kondamnita. Bapto estas verbo (fari) kaj necesa, ne nur por kredi: 1Peter 3:21 21 La simila figuro, kie eĉ bapto nun savas nin (ne la forigo de la malpuraĵo de la karno, sed la respondo de bona konscienco al Dio,) per la resurekto de Jesuo Kristo: Deturnu vin de peko (Pento) Acts 2:38-39 38 Tiam Petro diris al ili:Pentu, kaj baptigxu cxiu el vi en la nomo de Jesuo Kristo por pardonado de pekoj, kaj vi ricevos la donacon de la Sankta; Fantomo. Estas Rilata en la 21-a Jarcento: Ĉar la promeso estas por vi kaj por viaj infanoj, kaj por ĉiuj malproksimuloj, kiom ajn vokos la Eternulo, nia Dio. Kredi sole ne savas vin! John 3-:5 5 Estis viro el la Fariseoj, nomata Nikodemo, estro de la Judoj; 2 li venis al Jesuo nokte, kaj diris al li:Rabeno, ni scias, ke vi estas instruisto veninta de Dio; ar neniu povas fari i tiujn miraklojn, kiujn vi faras, se Dio ne estas kun li.3 Jesuo respondis kaj diris al li:Vere, vere, mi diras al vi:Se homo ne estas denovenaskita, li ne povas vidi la regnon de Dio. 4 Nikodemo diris al li: Kiel homo povas naskiĝi, kiam li estas maljuna? ĉu li povas eniri la duan fojon en la ventron de sia patrino kaj naskiĝi? 5 Jesuo respondis:Vere, vere, mi diras al vi:Se homo ne naskiĝas el akvo kaj el la Spirito, li ne povas eniri en la regnon de Dio. Vi devas kunveni kun aliaj fratoj. Hebrews 10:24 24 Kaj ni konsideru unu la alian, por inciti al amo kaj al bonaj faroj; sed admonante unu la alian; kaj des pli, kiom vi vidas, ke la tago alproksimiĝas.

[@rastanswibbo]

Lingvo de la agresanto, jes, la ironia! Ne gravas.

[@lettrej24]

Goliath vs David :)

[@batkojomo]

Halucine !!! USoNa armeo kiel defendanto, nekutima teatra rolo !! Tio okazis .... 0 fojojn en historio.

[@MTsteelMT]

Ilia prononcado estas tre feko, ĝi sonas tiel Usona.

[@thaysvieitas2254]

Esperanto estas unu pace lingvo. Nia flago enhavas la stelon de la espero.

[@12345567efas]

aggre na salita.astig! hehehe... sana mg ka ron p ng mdmeng videong gn2

[@crybaby1221]

Ili ne parolas Esperanto tre flua, mi ne povas kompreni neniun ke ili diris.

[@EsperantaStelo]

what an awful pronunciation!

[@ML678v]

Motherfuckers usonanoj

[@budtib]

Nek mi :)

[@mechy2k2000]

Mi sxatas tio esperanton estas lingvo de la agresanto komparas la ideo ke esperaton estas lingvo de la pacifisto :). La amreo de Usono havis bona ideo.

[@RobMacKendrick]

Jes, al la du demandoj.