Is there any language that is not "dumb" in some way? Maybe Esperanto, but that's a constructed language. And Esperanto would probably be a better choice for a

Is there any language that is not "dumb" in some way? Maybe Esperanto, but that's a constructed language. And Esperanto would probably be a better choice for an universal language, but no one really "chose" to use English. The US being the big winners of WW2 combined with the UK being a major colonial power at the time international trade developed probably helped.