Re:Esperanto as an Asian language
by harpiaharpyja on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:17AM
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Indeed, getting that network of speakers is the number one challenge a constructed language faces, so simply appealing to people is vastly more important for an constructed language than it may seem at first glance.
Invented languages are like social networks, it's all about reaching that critical mass where the network effect is self-sustaining. Getting there is extremely hard however, especially if, like the parent points out, it's incredibly difficult to actually make a language "objectively" superior to the hundreds of existing languages which already have millions of speakers.