Why not Esperanto?

Esperanto is a very good language. However, for some reason it failed to be accepted by international community. Perhaps it has all the good features but soul and spirit. It is dead and too machine oriented. Besides, it is always hard to start to learn something from scratch. Learning the resulting standard English for a native American speaker should be as easier as learning British English. In other words, we do not change the language but merely slightly correct it.