Re: Learning a language

From: Des Small (des.small_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:37:02 GMT

uiesperanto@aol.com (ORIELO) writes:

> >If one/two case is simple, then what is zero/one case, as in Thai,
> >Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Malay-Indonesian? Very simple?
> >Anyway, these should be simpler than Esperanto, right?
>
> No, you ass, because with a one case system you have to invent and
> apply all sorts of syntax rules to cover what the simple addition of
> one letter accomplishes in Esperanto.

You are the charmless Esperantiste formerly known as Dmitri and I claim
my Nobel-literature-prize-winning Esperantiste author.

Des
would know that attribution snippage anywhere 

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