The International Language (la lingvo internacia)

[Leodip]

Esperanto.
Esperanto is a language created by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof which tried to be the second language for different countries in order to uniform them. Initially, its name was "Lingvo Internacia", which litterally means "International Language", indeed explaining what it was made for.
Having an international language, either as a first language spoke by anyone and anywhere or as a second language teached with fluency in mind since kindergarten, would make translators not needed anymore for translations for political transactions and international congresses and the likes. I've got no data for that, but I remember hearing it somewhere in TV, and for sure it was in the order of billions of Euros only for the EU.
Other than that, travelling would be much easier, and the integration of immigrants in the new country would be much easier.

While I'm not talking specifically of Esperanto, would having an international language be possible in a future? Would you like it? Do you think it will ever be done?

[I put this in politics because, IMHO, this is where it belongs. If a mod finds it to be the inappropriate board, feel free to move it]

[Lucifer98]

pros of a world language: communication, unification, easier travel, better business practices

cons: fear (at least in the u.s. and many other western states, people are terrified of unification because they believe it will lead to less individual rights/feeling like a special individual), makes it easier for tyrant governments to conspire, could potentially be used to destroy cultures and in as little as 200 years times replace english and manderain (chinease) as the most populous language. less words=less ways to say things, many languages have words that dont have good counterparts; these are words devolped over hundreds of years of organic usage and a world language could essentially reset the selection to zero.

that being said, if a world language was gaining prominence i would learn that language as well as many others i could before they became rare