Esperanto is an artificially designed language that was intended to be used as a global lingua franca. It still has supporters to this day who argue for its use, and there are those who would argue against it.

What's your opinion?

Links:
http://www.learnlangs.com/blog/2009/07/31/do-all-journalists-speak-esperanto-now/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7505820.stm

(I also wrote a paper on it, most of which I posted in the Articles and Resources Subforum)