> Most people I know despise Esperanto, but largely for daft reasons [from 1] When I first read about Esperanto decades ago, I was immediately put off by it on

> Most people I know despise Esperanto, but largely for daft reasons [from 1] When I first read about Esperanto decades ago, I was immediately put off by it only using languages from the Indo-European language family as a source for vocabulary and grammar. Any good constructed language intended for worldwide use as a universal second language would also need to source vocab and patterns from Arabic, Swahili, Turkish, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Indonesian, all of which are from different language families, not to mention less numerically used language families.