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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by mannerheim on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:27PM (#27452040)
There are other, better-designed conlangs than Esperanto. Nobody speaks them, sure, but nobody speaks Esperanto either. And if we're going by popularity, might as well pick English anyway.
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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by leke on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:25PM (#27452739)
Esperanto has a pretty big, organised and active community. But you're right. I also think popularity should be the decider. If Esperanto thinks it should be the chosen auxiliary language, it will have to earn it.

Personally though, I prefer Ido over Esperanto.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by mnouquet on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:58PM (#27453138)
Define "pretty big".
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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by akvadrako on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:58PM (#27455011)
Around year 2000 there were about 2 million speakers. It's way above any other conlang.
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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by mannerheim on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:38PM (#27455756)
That's akin to being the biggest fish in a fishbowl. There are minor dialects of minor languages with more speakers.
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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by akvadrako on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:03AM (#27458176)
The question was about conlangs, which have the advantage of being designed to be easier to learn.

Esperanto is so easy it can be learned in negative time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Espera....

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