A change to Esperanto, or any other artificial language, whilst at least as beneficial a change, would be much less likely to take place. People learn a new language? Bah! Still, change the world a person at a time. Pick up some Esperanto, teach your kids, put yourself in for the long haul and maybe when statistics show a large enough percentage of people are fluent in it... Stranger things have happened. At least we the people have more control over Esperanto becoming commonplace than metric time (or metric anything in the US).
In Australia we're metric, but it wasn't all that many years ago that TVs were measured in inches, as CRTs still are today.
Change comes, it's painful, you move on. As painful as it is now, in ten or twenty years people will be thinking, "we can't change now, it would be too painful - if only we'd switched over 20 years ago!"
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A change to Esperanto, or any other artificial language, whilst at least as beneficial a change, would be much less likely to take place. People learn a new language? Bah!
Still, change the world a person at a time.
Pick up some Esperanto, teach your kids, put yourself in for the long haul and maybe when statistics show a large enough percentage of people are fluent in it...
Stranger things have happened. At least we the people have more control over Esperanto becoming commonplace than metric time (or metric anything in the US).
In Australia we're metric, but it wasn't all that many years ago that TVs were measured in inches, as CRTs still are today.
Change comes, it's painful, you move on.
As painful as it is now, in ten or twenty years people will be thinking, "we can't change now, it would be too painful - if only we'd switched over 20 years ago!"