[knolax]

He did good but not good enough for a true international language.

[gordonguthrie]

Except a couple of million speak it - to a degree - and it has been going organically for over a century and shows no sign of dying

[knolax]

So only around ~1/8000 of the people who need to speak it actually speak it. It doesn't show any signs of dying but it doesn't show any signs of growth either.