Re: I think I am a language geek :)

From: Dmitri (uiesperanto_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: 03 Jul 2004 05:53:33 GMT

>What point do you have about Esperanto? Esperanto is considerably more
>difficult than it has to be. It is biased towards European languages

Oh, I totally agree that it is more difficult than it has to be.......but the
fact remains that it is still simpler/easier than e.g. French or Spanish. I
mean what kind of bigotted moron could look at one verb conjugation system with
6 endings total in the entire language and refuse to admit it would be much
easier to learn than another langauge with a verb system of dozens of endings,
not to mention irregular verbs, same with a multipart system of denoting direct
object (multipart in and of itself), plural, motion towards, elision of a
preposition, and all the differing ways of denoting all those time idioms as
opposed to 3 endings using 3 morphemes (o, oj, ojn), the horrors of the
differing forms and morphologies of the (the question words and their
corresponding collective, demonstrative, indefinite, etc. counterparts. Now,
each of these areas (plus a number of others I won't renumerate right
now....they know what they are) is easier than the corresponding area in e.g.
Spanish and French, so it naturally follows that all these areas taken together
in Esperanto would be also easier when compared with those same areas in the
other languages taken together.

As they say: there is none so blind as he who will not see.

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)

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