Re: Learning a language

From: ORIELO (uiesperanto_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: 22 Jun 2004 14:03:53 GMT

>ORIELO> But E-o does not have lexical tones,
>
>Neither does Malay-Indonesian.

I didn't have MI in mind with tone.

>Yeah, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai have tones. So what? Esperanto has
>those difficult consonant clusters, such as "kv", "sc", etc. They
>aren't easier than tones.

But, "kv" "sc" and the alleged others don't have the potential of changing the
meaning of EVERY WORD in the language, now, do they?

>I can't remember but I think Malay-Indonesian has tones.
>

You just said above that it didn't!!

>What are those? Are you going to say that all the ambiguities
>possible in Esperanto a "necessary"? Examples?

for example the 'optionally expressed" subject in Japanese verbs.

>ORIELO> and probably a number of other horrors that I'm not
> ORIELO> familiar with.
>
>Esperanto doesn't lack them.

Maybe, maybe not.........but at least our horrors are simpler to deal with
Orienta Iowa Esperanto-Ligo

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