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: What if everyone started to learn English...   Wouldn't that be a better
: option than Esperanto?  I guess that it is maybe me being a Belgian
: citizen that already has to learn 4 languages to come around in my own
: country that I can take these things so easily...  What if I spoke
: esperanto now...  WOuld you understand me?  I guess not, so why not
: stick to the 'good old english'...  Then everybody understands
: oneantoher...

: Greetings,

: Karl Odent

HERE IS MY OPINION:

There should be one common official language in EU ( - and in 
whole Europe and world). Now EU is in a ridiculous situation
with 11-13 official languages.

In my opinion it should be esperanto or something similar.
It is also possible to re-construct esperanto to some wished direction.

Earlier I used to have an attitude, which kind most of the english-
speakers have: 
     
     "We already have the universal language - english",

but then I got tired of the advantage and unfair easiness, that it 
gave to the native english-speakers against the others.
I took a look at esperanto teaching pages in the NET and I was
surprised about the easiness of that language. I read it just in my
free time now and then, and I learned the esperanto grammar only 
in THREE WEEKS! 

(If I studied the words of esperanto, I could
speak it already. It would be easy - the words have simple rules.)
After studing english years after years at school it is still
difficult to understand what people are really saying.

The universal language should fulfill atleast the following points:

1)   It must be easy to learn (simple grammar without exceptions).
2)   Words must be pronounced as those are written.
3)   There should not be so called "idioms" or phrases.
4)   Language should be equal enough to different nations.


Esperanto fulfills these points. 
But the universal language could be some other built-language also.
It could even be english, IF it would be REBUILT in the following way:
     
     Words are pronounced as those are written. Now we must 
     study the english words two times, first how those are 
     written and second how those are pronounced = double work 
     = waste of time.
     
     Grammar is transformed to a simplier form - numerious exceptions
     of the rules are left out.

     Idioms are left out. For example the idiom, "mixed up", means 
     nothing for the foreign language speakers like me, if I read it 
     direct literally. And if I take it as an idiom, I must learn
     it from memory, without any logic. And english is FULL OF
     these kind of idioms.


     
Native english speakers are in the priviledged position: 
They can say what ever they WANT, the others only what they CAN.
It is not fair.

There should be international agreements of the universal language.
Otherwise nothing happens and the world slips day by day 
to the arms of english. Maybe the agreements should be made
firstly in EU, and then EU persuades other countries:
     
     Eastern europe - esperanto is easy for them
     Russian - 150 million people, it�s easy for them also
     China - why should they submit to english? (1 200 million p...)
     Japan - 125 million people
     South America - there are spoken spanish and portuguese 
                     in the whole south continental and
                     esperanto resembles these languages
                     (~350 million people)

Esperanto isn�t difficult for english speakers either. For example
Most of the words are loanwords from english. (Anyway, I think it's
fair that they study some foreign language too. Many other nations
must study more than one foreign languege, so it shouldn't be too
difficult for english speakers either.)