An international language (was: blog spam)

>Bill wrote:
>>One thing I would like to see is the invention of a universal language,
>>taking the best words of each language to describe some thing,
>>
Pete Wilcox wrote:
>It's been tried before.  It was called Esperanto.  It didn't catch on.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:BNUERzOuhvQJ:www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Bruno/bladerunner.html+city.speech+a-mishmash-of-Japanese-Spanish-German-what-have-you