More Random Musings

Some people are still flogging Esperanto as a 'universal' language - pointedly ignoring two fairly obvious points: First, it would require anyone buying into the concept to learn an artificial, 'made-up' language that has sharp contrasts with the internal logic of their 'native' language, and learn it 'from the ground up'; Second, in almost every nation on earth (with the glaring exception of the United States), English is taught as a required subject, along with whatever 'native' language(s) the students may also be taught. English is the language aircraft communicate with control towers in. English is the language international commerce is conducted in.

Hel-lo, we already have a 'universal' language, replete with components and constructions representing almost every major language group of current consequence (and some, like french, of less consequence than its country). This is precisely the sort of mental masturbation for people with no lives of their own who think (and I use the term loosely) that they know what's 'best' for all, and whose 'one size fits all' mentality never accounts for the fact that it doesn't, and wouldn't even were they in position to implement.