like, i'm not even trying to roast them i just want someone to explain what this means

@squirrel *stares*

I, uh... I think he's saying things like accents are extraneous bullshit that languages don't need? I'm not sure, his use of "pidgin" there is confusing the heck out of me.

tbh I think he just doesn't know what he's talking about. (And also doesn't proofread, apparently.)

@squirrel I'd almost love to know what he thinks about, say, cyrillic. *Almost*.

@squirrel OH!! I FIGURED IT OUT!!

He's saying that everyone should use the same basic alphabet - "intermediary pidgin" - in order to be universally understood. So basically he's totally bought into English-speaking imperialism and justified it with Communicative Efficiency.

@squirrel look, if you try to use these fucked up alien letters like "á" and "ü" it's going to make people's brains literally explode. you can't do that

@squirrel also enjoying the attempted point about effective communication where multiple words are spelled wrong

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