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[mannerheim]

There are other, better-designed conlangs than Esperanto. Nobody speaks them, sure, but nobody speaks Esperanto either. And if we're going by popularity, might as well pick English anyway.

[leke → mannerheim]

Esperanto has a pretty big, organised and active community. But you're right. I also think popularity should be the decider. If Esperanto thinks it should be the chosen auxiliary language, it will have to earn it.

Personally though, I prefer Ido over Esperanto.

[mnouquet → leke]

Define "pretty big".

[akvadrako → mnouquet]

Around year 2000 there were about 2 million speakers. It's way above any other conlang.

[mannerheim → akvadrako]

That's akin to being the biggest fish in a fishbowl. There are minor dialects of minor languages with more speakers.

[akvadrako → mannerheim]

The question was about conlangs, which have the advantage of being designed to be easier to learn.

Esperanto is so easy it can be learned in negative time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Espera....