[BillChapman]

I see things differently. I see Esperanto as a remarkable success story. It has survived wars and revolutions and economic crises and continues to attract people to learn and speak it. Esperanto works. I’ve used it in about seventeen countries over recent years. I recommend it to anyone, as a way of making friendly local contacts in other countries.

[jodrellblank]

I think it's odd for people to argue that "it failed" when it's the only language to have started from scratch and taken off at all; there's no precedent to compare it with - how long "should" a language take to go from non-existent to popular?