I admire the Esperanto movement and its history, but at the same time wish that it would collapse, because I believe it's holding back the very real need for an

I admire the Esperanto movement and its history, but at the same time wish that it would collapse, because I believe it's holding back the very real need for an international auxiliary language. But isn't Esperanto an international auxiliary language, I hear you ask? Well it is, but not the one that people want, and that's a problem because most people look at it and say, I don't like it. Or they will learn it and say, I don't like how it sounds, or it isn't easy once you get past the basics and want to say more complex things. If I could use a programming analogy, it's like if BASIC had such a fanatical following, it drowned out all other attempts to make or promote a better programming language. So all anyone hears when they think of learning a programming language is BASIC!!! BASIC is what you need to learn to write any type of computer program! There are other programming languages, but they are all dead and people in the programming community all know BASIC. Then I look at it and think, meh, I would hate to have to use that. Or I would learn just enough to think, yeah, screw this. I don't want to continue down this road.