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>>9 official languages - what a confusion. IMO there should be a single official language world-wide
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>Whatever happened to Esperanto? This language was created to be a global language. I never learned it but I wonder why it never became popular.
According to at least some Esperanto-speakers, two important groups, who should have aided it, opposed it for selfish reasons: 1) language teachers, 2) English-speaking people.
According to my Esperanto teacher (no, I didn't learn it well enough to speak it), Esperanto can be learned in 1/5th. of the time it takes to learn the average European language (including English, of course).
While I find this interesting, I would be content with
any language being used as an official World language. This will happen, sooner or later - later, I am afraid.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
