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On 1/15/2024 10:29 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2024-01-14, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>> This was a very preliminary meeting, held in London. The first General
>> Assembly was later that year, in Geneva, with 41 nations represented.
>>
>> French and English were designated "official" [working] languages.



> Makes sense.  French was still the international (well, Western)
> lingua franca, but English was rising rapidly, what with the British
> Empire and the ascent of the USA.
> 
>> Spanish was added later the same year.
> 
>            Now that's more surprising.
> 
>> There was a formal motion to include Esperanto, but that was vetoed by
>> the French. (The league did recommend, in 1922, that Esperanto be
>> included in the educational curriculum of member countries.)


> 
> Esperanto was never attached to any population/culture/etc. that
> would have allowed it to achieve critical mass.
> 



is Ross Clark  on vacation?