2006-09-30 08:14:34 · 11 answers · asked by mr.saucepan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I thought it was a brilliant idea as well!
However when it was first proposed in the late 1800s, such a small number could talk it fluently it was not worth the attempt. Most countries rejected from making this a compulsory language preferring to stick with their second language (usually English anyway) which a greater number spoke.
2006-09-30 08:18:15 · answer #1 · answered by James W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English had become an international language already, and although Esperanto is much easier to learn, ESL is well established all over the world...it's similar to the QWERTY keyboard on a type-writer, which actually developed to slow down the typists because the original machines got jammed when typing was too fast, and now that we don't have the problem of jamming anymore, we still continue to use it instead of using a more convenient alternative keyboard system. Or think of another example, electric or solar cars...there's too much investment and profit making in carbon fuel energy to allow alternatives to develop.
2006-09-30 08:32:52 · answer #2 · answered by peace m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can remember been in Toquay in 1980 and this huge group of kids from France and Italy were wandering about with 'Esperanto 1980' written on their sweatshirts, none of us had a clue what it meant and thought they were advertising some football match, by the end of the week they were fighting in lumps on the beach so maybe they might have been better off as football supporters because the new language they were supposed to be learning wasn't doing them any good.
2006-09-30 10:42:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Microsoft the world leader in computer operating systems.
Microsoft Works is the ultimate oxymoron
The RISC concept was similar to Esperanto.
RISC was a great idea which worked .
But not enough people wanted to speak it.
So it sank without a trace.
Esperanto forgot to mount the internet bandwagon.
So it sank without a trace.
2006-09-30 08:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by SouthOckendon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the English decided that they couldn't be bothered to learn another language, and it doesn't work if you shout louder.
2006-09-30 08:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by MIKE D 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
would you give up your native tongue? It is a LOT of effort to learn another language. I think the best thing is for everyone in the world to learn english, appart from their native tongue.
2006-09-30 08:17:13 · answer #6 · answered by joseguate22 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably because no-one had the advantage of learning it from childhood, when learning languages is easiest.
2006-09-30 08:19:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think because it meant that everyone would have to learn a new language!!
2006-09-30 08:17:39 · answer #8 · answered by Lit Diva 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It didn't deal with the root problem that hinders communication - GREED.
2006-09-30 09:09:28 · answer #9 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well nobody else did, that's why it wasn't successful.
2006-09-30 08:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by Thornsey 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋