Re: Learning a language

From: Dmitri (uiesperanto_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: 24 Jun 2004 12:13:39 GMT

>About number words in Esperanto: Many users have complained that "ses"
>and "sep" are so similar that over the phone, they're hard to
>distinguish.

Oh, yeah....two words sound too similar over the PHONE (a fairly new invention
at the time Dr. Z was working on his language), so let's just scrap the whole
lanugage!!

Believe it or not, the two Russian numbers "pyat' " and "shest' " sound
amazingly alike under the right conditions, so I guess Russian is faulty?

>The same problem happens
>to the names of the letters. "go" vs. "ko"... So tricky. German "ge"
>vs. "ka" is so easy to tell apart. So are English "gee" vs. "kay".
>

8 of the 28/30 letters in the spanish alphabet sound like each other, (Ce) and
another 8 sound alike with a different pattern (eCe) so I guess Spanish is
faulty.

Stop straining at gnats LSD! Look to the forest and not the veins on each
individual leaf of each tree!!
Dmitri
Iowa City, IA

Views expressed in this post are not necessarily the official views of the
Eastern Iowa Esperanto League, the Esperanto League for North America or even
the Esperanto movement as a whole. Supposed rudeness is mine alone. (DRM)