English globalization
According to this article in Wired:
By 2020, native speakers will make up only 15 percent of the estimated 2 billion people who will be using or learning the language. Already, most conversations in English are between nonnative speakers who use it as a lingua franca.
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There’s nothing wrong with English, but I’m not at all sure that it is appropriate for a global role. I’d like to argue for a wider use of the planned language Esperanto.
Yeah, Esperanto would be well-suited to this role, but it has a bootstrapping problem. I tried to learn it for a little bit a while ago, but with nobody else speaking it, it lacks incentive.
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