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Isn't that what Esperanto was supposed to be?

Don't get me wrong, I have a huge appreciation for Esperanto, but using it as a global language would mean forcing western ideas, about how a language should work, on the eastern population. So as Zamenhof didn't consider Asian languages when he made Esperanto (not to mention the use of diacritics), I wouldn't use it as a global language.

I have been following some auxlangs for some time now, and if I had to vote, I'd go with an a priori language as a global second language, instead of choosing an existing one with specific culture attached to it.

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