Re: Learning a language

From: LEE Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: 21 Jun 2004 11:02:43 +0200

>>>>> "ORIELO" == ORIELO <uiesperanto@aol.com> writes:

    ORIELO> I tend to think that the "ThatE-o is simple is a myth"
    ORIELO> attitude is more a result of a misunderstanding of the the
    ORIELO> "advertising" of Esperantists, rather than any falsity
    ORIELO> about the simplicity of the language.......you must admit:
    ORIELO> Learning 6 endings for the entire verbal system is VERY
    ORIELO> much easier than the 50+ in Spanish, for example; or ONE
    ORIELO> case ending for the 2-case system is much easier than say,
    ORIELO> the system in Finnish or Hungarian.

Bad choice of examples for comparison. Compared to Chinese, Thai,
Vietnamese and Malay-Indonesian, 6 endings for the verbal system is
very very very very complicated. And 2 endings for the noun-adjective
system is also very very very very complicated. 

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