Why Esperanto couldn't be a good replace for English?

Answer 1

Replacement (I think you meant to say) for what? Certainly not as a language spoken by Englishmen. The English do very well with English. We will certainly not mess with that; nor should we, even if it were possible.

If you mean it as a replacement as an international language, then yes, Esperanto would do very well indeed. Simply because Engliah isn't an international language anyway. It's widely spoken, but that doesn't make it international.

Let me be very clear about this.
The idea of a international language (and I'm assuming that's really what you were getting at), especially if it is arbitrarily chosen or worse (and English would be just one of many bad choices) would be next to useless. This is assuming by 'international' you mean the sole language.
If however, you refer to an AUXILIARY language, intended to bridge the gap between cultures by providing an easily learnt method of communication then yes. It would open the world up to far more in the way of understanding.
Let's exam the first example where each linguistic group would resent the fact that any other language was forced on them, and NOBODY would agree on ANY language since they would all want their own.
Esperanto is making headway in becoming an AUXILIARY language, yet people reject it out of hand because they all fear the loss of their tongue and a single language spoken by all, which of course is exactly what Esperanto is trying NOT to do.
As a common SECOND language you and you and you have no need to sink years into study of a language that you will most likely NEVER fully assimilate like a native. The choice would be yours. With Esperanto you can be comfortable talking to your neighbour in your native tongue and just as comfortable talking to Ming Lu across the waves on an equal footing in this easily learnt language. It's like a neutral handshake, because each participant invested an equal amount of effort to learn this easy language. (16 gramatical rules... NO exceptions!)
Believe it or not, Esperanto represents the best chance for the survival of the multitude of dying languages since it's purpose is to forestall the monopoly of any one National tongue to the disadvantage of another.
So will it some day become universal (which by the way doesn't mean that EVERYBODY in the world speaks it, just those that want it / need it)?
Well, the $600 million+ USD spent yearly on translation services at the UN (six official languages) and a similar amount in the EU says, sooner or later something is going to change, and this is the cheapest and most effective, proven alternative.

Further, if you don't think Esperanto is making headway, check this.
In a recent reprint of the Unua Libro (first book), editor Gene Keyes said that when he first started the project in 2000, he did a search for Esperanto on Google and it yielded over 1 million hits. At the completion of his task in February of 2007, the same search yielded over 34 million hits. Out of curiosity, after I had read that I did the same search and it yielded over 39.2 million hits. That's up over 5 million in two months. So it's growing. Slowly (or maybe not so slowly!)
Just to add more power behind that statement, I just did the same search. 65,200,000 plus hits. Almost doubled since January.
Obviously not everyone will find a use for it, and that's fine. However for those that take the time and bother to search out the other users, it's worth it. Of course searching out other uses gets easier with each passing day.
Personally I have friends all over the world. Friends I wouldn't have had with out Esperanto.

Some people think that the language is Impractical and awkward?
The two million plus (as of 1995) people that use it says it's not Impractical. Two million was considered the functionally fluent level (IE: able to get by in the necessary elements when travelling) in 1995. Since 1995 the Internet has grown by leaps and bounds, and Esperanto right along with it.
Wikipedia hosts around 250 different languages. Esperanto ranks 18th in the most numerous articles category.
More than these languages to name a few.
20 Slovak
21 Czech
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

NOBODY has to give up their mother tongue, nor should they.
Esperanto as an auxiliary language however would be wonderful.

I encourage everybody to research and draw their own conclusions.

Ĝis!

Answer 2

Esperanto, is referred to as La Internacia Lingvo. The fundamental conception is that each and every nationality could ought to adopt an same quantity of attempt to gain knowledge of the moment language, thereby bestowing no person nationality with a linguistic capabilities. A impartial handshake if you are going to. Another capabilities is that given that each and every folks that care to gain knowledge of this handy language (undoubtedly no person is compelled if we have no use of it) now have a way to speak with different nationalities similarly, and we're nonetheless unfastened to make use of our possess language in our possess international locations, hence protective even the lesser used languages from extinction. There are different worldwide languages, however Esperanto has been probably the most victorious through a giant margin. In reality, in the event you had been to complete up the whole quantity of audio system for each and every of the opposite worldwide languages, Esperanto could nonetheless out quantity them. At two million plus audio system, it's developing through leaps and limits, thank you for probably the most side to the Internet. It will get rather tiresome listening to my fellow English audio system pronouncing that English is the simplest. Well, duh! If you develop up with it, certain. But you are not able to inform me there wasn't no less than one second in tuition wherein you did not have a few quandary with our rule exceptions, idioms, or different bastardized spellings. I have a corporation manage on English, however I opt for to manage my peers on an same footing, or else they are not peers; they are topics.

Answer 3

Are you suggesting that it should replace English as a world language? In that case, you would have to persuade the entire population of the world to learn it and keep practising it. Who would monitor shifts in vocabulary? There would have to be some body which was the equivalent of an Academy deciding which words and expressions were approved and which were not. Inevitably the language would change as spoken all over the world and we would understand one another less and less. People would not take kindly to the sheer hard work of using and developing a language and would revert more and more to their own language, infusing its characteristics into their use of Esperanto.
If your suggestion is that the English speaking world adopt Esperanto and get rid of English then -- no. English speakers are not known for their ability to tackle other languages and they simply wouldn't accept this suggestion. Besides, who in his right mind would exchange a language with a history, a cultural background, a rich body of literature and a versatility which lends itself to humour, the making of puns, etc. for an artificial language with none of these things? Perish the thought!

Answer 4

Because there's no economic power behind it to force us to learn it.

We had to learn English because that is what the job opportunities ask for. Not Esperanto.

Esperanto for many people is dead. They don't even know (or undertand) what it is, but with the only adjective of "artificial", the deny it the posibility to be useful. With such a reaction, people will not learn it. "What for?", they ask.

And for people whose native is English... well... it is like trying to make them walk to work instead of using their car. It is okay for them that WE have to invest our time and money in learning THEIR language. Why should they want to do the same for us? Most don't.

Answer 5

The main objection is that Americans and British people would then have to learn it in order to deal internationally. As you are no doubt aware, we in the UK are in keen competition with our brethren in the USA for the title of the "World's Worst Linguists".

Answer 6

1. 1.8 billion people speak English.
2. 100 thousand - 2 million people speak Esperanto.