Recent content by Brian Barker

@JoJo Even if Esperanto is supposedly designed to be easy to learn, it's simply more useful to learn a language like English, Spanish or Mandarin Chinese that has hundreds of millions of speakers worldwide. I can't see any constructed language being able to overcome that barrier, if a universal...

It is unfortunate that there is much ignorance about Esperanto. Indeed many ill-informed people describe Esperanto as "failed" - others say that if human beings were meant to fly, God would have given them wings. Esperanto is neither artificial nor a failure however. During a short period...

English is certainly not the lingua franca of the World. I live in London and if anyone says to me ?everyone speaks English? my answer is ?Listen and look around you?. If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open. The promulgation...

Google translate is already ahead of Bing, with 64 languages. The latest is the international language Esperanto, which has 2 million fluent speakers. I wonder how many people speak Klingon, worldwide, fluently?

I live in London and if anyone says to me "everyone speaks English" my answer is "Listen and look around you". If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open. The promulgation of English as the World's "lingua franca" is unethical and...

I understand that Forrest J.Ackerman did the main work for Incubus, Esperanto translation As far as English as the global language is concerned, I can only reply "What total arrogance." English, in no way can claim to be the global language. What about the protection of endandangered...

I find no hostility to Esperanto in the United Kingdom. I live in London and if anyone says to me "everyone speaks English" my answer is "Listen and look around you". If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open. The British are...