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Esperanto is super Euro-centric, though, which can alienate people from Asia and other places. Esperanto did have something of a brief boom here in Japan, but the barrier to entry is also high since it shares no vocabulary (outside of some loans into Japanese and Korean, though some of those don't retain the same meaning, and basically very few in Chinese from what I understand), has different grammatical structure, etc. Chinese is basically SOV like many European languages, from what I gather, but Japanese and Korean are generally SVO.

There's also a whole high-context vs. low-context language issue.

Its hard to choose, interlingua, esperanto, lingwa de planeta, ido, uropi, lingua franca nova.
Personally I think its better to develop an international sign language.
It's much easier to learn as you dont need to learn new spellings or alphabets (the sign for "a" can also be greek alpha for instance), or germanic or slavic or latin roots, it is only actions added to your own local word, so literally verbal monoglots can speak to any other monoglot. No matter how thick their accent is.
Plus it would greatly expand the deaf communities international reach, would not exclude the deaf, and I like the idea of children learning an international auxiliary language that can also help the hard of hearing.
And if you've ever been in a loud bar or nightclub or restaurant in a foreign country in europe it would make ordering much easier. Obviously unfortunately it does somewhat exclude disabled people with reduced mobility and wouldn't work on the phone, but we all have videocalls now and we shouldn't be on the phone while driving anyway. Also it's quite fun. I've started in French Sign Language (Elix app on ios app store) and am pushing to have lessons for my colleagues as we work in medical training and I think its nuts its not offered let alone encouraged or compulsory.

So I say we should develop Euro Sign Language.

I mean we all use the middle finger already, lets expand on that.

While I find it admirable to promote the use of Esperanto I don't think that many people want to start learning another language. It might work to garner a nerdish interest from people who love languages - which will contribute to the number of competent speakers. But otherwise it's hard to convince people to learn a language you still can't really use in your daily life.

And at the moment I can only give you marketing ideas that will attract fringe groups: Bad Herzberg in Germany is the ❤️ of Esperanto - a great place for hiking. You can even consider it a kind of pilgrimage. William Shatner aka Captain James T. Kirk played in a film that exclusively uses Esperanto. He holds the rights to the film too. You can see snippets of this film in Blade Trinity (and they had to pay Shatner a pretty penny to use it) and there's also a short dialogue in Esperanto in this film...

English is a European made language spoken by a lot of the world... 🤷‍♂️

Sorry, that ship has sailed long ago.

Pick your fights wisely, this is a lost cause.

In what way is English not a European made international language?

Yeah, let's replace English with something European. Let's use Cornish, it's more European than English. *g*

If I had to chose, I would rather speak Latin: amazing collection of work available to read from, and to discuss about.

But as others have mentioned English is not a US made language and they certainly do not own it. English comes from Britain but its rooted in old Germanic language. It's also a mix of a few other languages (including my own French... which is also a mix btw).

If I'd pick a global language I'd pick to return to Latin.

pls, I’ll show you the exit

The language where a woman is a female man? I mean, no natural language is perfect but probably there are better constructed ones.