And a while back, French was the language of international diplomacy, Latin the language of science and mathematics, Italian for music. An argument could be ma

And a while back, French was the language of international diplomacy, Latin the language of science and mathematics, Italian for music. An argument could be made for all of them. Probably even for German, as it has a lot of native speakers in Europe. I don't think anything will remove English from its throne as the de facto "lingua franca", but I think the chance of making it a true, unified de jure version is about as unlikely as seeing Esperanto seated there. And I don't quite get the "key point". We're not talking about Latin here, updating Esperanto shouldn't pose a problem. Although it's more likely to be in the French style, with a central committee.