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It should develop its own language, easier to spell and write perhaps taking advantage of machine learning etc during development. Something like Esperanto that is not owned by anyone but is easier to learn by everyone(within EU).

English gives an unfair advantage to native english speakers not to mention that it has a lot of legacy stuff that makes it hard to learn. Non-native speakers will always be seen as outsiders/2nd class.

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But everyone already speaks it. When I moved to Spain (from NL), I was flabbergasted about the level of English here; even the English teachers were impossible to understand. But now it is rapidly changing. Same in France and Germany. When I start speaking English to someone now in either of these countries, they generally understand.

> Non-native speakers will always be seen as outsiders/2nd class.

Not in my experience. But how would you measure that; in my personal experience, the Spanish and Brits treat my wife and me like their own.

>>> Not in my experience. But how would you measure that; in my personal experience, the Spanish and Brits treat my wife and me like their own.

Of course you can measure that! Try to get a job where communication and/or "presentation" skills are important(i.e lawyer, PR, media, investment banker etc)and see how it goes. Even the accent may cost you the job. The language skills are a handicap for any non-native speaker in the job market and not only.

That is still what you say; I do not see much proof of that. I work in banking and deal with much of what you say and I meet too many Dutch guys in those positions to think there is an issue. I was looking more for an objective measurement instead of a gut feel we both have.

What about this measurement: how many TV presenters speaking "broken english" have you seen in the UK? or broken spanish in Spain or broken dutch in Holland? I believe the number is close to zero.

As a universal 2nd langauge Esperanto is indeed a much better choice. Esperanto is so easy to learn that you can even learn it for free. If you teach children Esperanto than English for the same total time as children who just learn English, the 1st group will be better at English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...

True that it would give an advantage to native speakers. You can often see that being the case on the net. But I believe this effect to dwindle with time.

Esperanto is a nice idea, but I think too few people could be convinced to learn it, if the utility of it remains questionable.

And it shall be named Newspeak.

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