Esperanto is widely miunderstood by the general public. It's often lumped together with fictional languages (languages from fictional books or movies) like Klingon or Elvish. But there's a very important distinction. Fictional languages like Klingon are created to appear as if they're natural languages—reflecting their fictional cultures' customs, idioms, and ways of thinking. They often have a level of complexity co…
I would say that the difference is between a "constructed" language and a "designed" language, both may be "invented", but the latter (Esperanto) simply is on another level.
And this opens the doors to debating whether or not Esperanto was well designed or not.