Edited sentence: Because there are other languages (such as English, French, and Spanish at various times in history) that have atained a position of lingua franca, the position that Esperontists would like Esperanto to fill is already taken.Despite the hopes of Esperanto proponents for Esperanto to become widely used, the probability of it doing so would be about the same as the probability all all drivere in the world driving Yugos.Don Welty.Even if he/she would learn Esperanto to the extent that its proponants would like, he would still have to be fluent in a natural language.For Esperanto to take the place of a natural language currently in use, it would require a massive effort for the current information sharers to learn Esperanto and a massive translation effort for them to have anything to share.For example, if a reseacher wanted information on the development of the microchip, he would find articles in English, German, Japanese, French, and perhaps a few other natural languages but little or nothing in Esperanto.Furthermore, if Esperanto would become a universally adopted second language as its proponents would like, it would be subject to all of the forces of change that current languages undergo, and, after a while, would lose its uniformity.Perpetually Distant Second.Since Esperantists wish to supplant a language or languages that are currently in use, it is folly to assume that people who already communicate well in a second language would be willing to replace it with a language that has a limited techincal vocabulary, few (if any) technical articles in any of the disciplines current in any university, and few people who can communicate in it