Esperanto has suffixes to distinguish the different part of speech that has gramamtical relevance to at least most language families across the world, so I do not see any problems with the use of word class markers. There are also word class markers in natural languages like English <-ness>, <-ly>, and <-ful> and <-r> in Mandarin which does not make word class marker unusual. Also, what do you mean by quirks? Esperanto has a highly schematic orientation that makes it less Euro-centric, especially with the almost lack of gender inflection, that makes it more learnable by native speakers of non-European languages despite the “unnatural” perception by European and European diaspora.
I think that there is an issue with the suffixes created a priori, because those categories are full of fuzzy borders and having hardest rules that categorize them makes it vulnerable to being ruptured and when a big part of the advantage is this consistency it tends to be unsuited for first language, cause languages naturally learned mutate a lot and unpredictably, that is a near certanty, so it is a tricky thing because without it creating roots somewhere is a tall order for it being something of a universal language is complicated. And creating roots is further complicated because of cultural reasons, so I don’t dislike, the idea of Esperanto, or logiban or tokipona, but artificial languages face very rough difficulties and must be considered, the only artificial language that I saw being used historically, was a, if I’m not mistaken, a native south American language, that was exclusively thought as a second language to boys when they would be considered full grown men, and it was used, I believe, exclusively for religous purposes, therefore I would think that is one of the things that lead me to believe that artificial languages are somewhat ineffective for communication, save from an international organization, with some sizable recognition, using it as a resource for communication, I don’t see any way for an artificial languages to gain traction, so I’m kinda meh on the subject, I hope I’m wrong but I think that English is here for a while, likely to be replaced by Mandarin, but I’d like to see a language built wirh people from every continent (African and native south American languages are rarely considered in the creation of such languages) to be a better universal language.
Esperanto has suffixes to distinguish the different part of speech that has gramamtical relevance to at least most language families across the world, so I do not see any problems with the use of word class markers. There are also word class markers in natural languages like English <-ness>, <-ly>, and <-ful> and <-r> in Mandarin which does not make word class marker unusual. Also, what do you mean by quirks? Esperanto has a highly schematic orientation that makes it less Euro-centric, especially with the almost lack of gender inflection, that makes it more learnable by native speakers of non-European languages despite the “unnatural” perception by European and European diaspora.
I think that there is an issue with the suffixes created a priori, because those categories are full of fuzzy borders and having hardest rules that categorize them makes it vulnerable to being ruptured and when a big part of the advantage is this consistency it tends to be unsuited for first language, cause languages naturally learned mutate a lot and unpredictably, that is a near certanty, so it is a tricky thing because without it creating roots somewhere is a tall order for it being something of a universal language is complicated. And creating roots is further complicated because of cultural reasons, so I don’t dislike, the idea of Esperanto, or logiban or tokipona, but artificial languages face very rough difficulties and must be considered, the only artificial language that I saw being used historically, was a, if I’m not mistaken, a native south American language, that was exclusively thought as a second language to boys when they would be considered full grown men, and it was used, I believe, exclusively for religous purposes, therefore I would think that is one of the things that lead me to believe that artificial languages are somewhat ineffective for communication, save from an international organization, with some sizable recognition, using it as a resource for communication, I don’t see any way for an artificial languages to gain traction, so I’m kinda meh on the subject, I hope I’m wrong but I think that English is here for a while, likely to be replaced by Mandarin, but I’d like to see a language built wirh people from every continent (African and native south American languages are rarely considered in the creation of such languages) to be a better universal language.