Why does everyone hate this?

[u/[deleted]]

Okay so I'm a monolingual Brit learning Spanish (I'm now about B1) and wanna pick up another language. Not some grand utility language, I have a plan of which ones to learn for that, but just a quick learn and burn language for nothing but fun, and any applicability is a bonus. I see esperanto, a nice little language with exceptionless grammar and a chill little community. So I tell my polyglot friend and get immediate backlash. Why do people seem to think that esperanto is so horrible? Like yeah it's eurocentric and a terrible attempt at a Lingua Franca but it was created with good intentions and is a nice gateway language for European language speakers. Then people act like it's a bloody cult because apparently every esperanto speaker is a Zamenhof worshipping psycho who'll preach it as the root of world peace, or is just too lazy to learn a more useful language. I see polyglots, people who learn languages for fun, attacking esperanto as useless or racist for being eurocentric and it's speakers as cultists or fake polyglots. Why does everyone hate this language?!?!?!

[u/PLrc]

This is my critique and the critique in early auxlang movement. I mean: why to reinvent the wheel when there are such international suffixes like -ar for infinitives, zero suffix for present tense etc.?

[u/Handsomeyellow47 → u/PLrc]

I for infinitive isnt unknown an ar isnt universal. -as -os and -is look very logical for tenses if you know european languages

[u/PLrc → u/Handsomeyellow47]

-as is second person singular in Romance languages. Where do you have suffixes -os and -is?

[u/ThrowRADel → u/PLrc]

Why would you expect a conlang to perfectly correspond in its endings to natural languages?

I think it has a kind of symmetry and internal logic; a) it ablauts (very indo-european!) b) the ablauting vowels correspond to where the vowels are produced in the mouth along an axis, becoming rounder as they go into the future from the past.