Re: I think I am a language geek :)
From: LEE Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 07/05/04
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Date: 05 Jul 2004 13:30:41 +0200
>>>>> "Dmitri" == Dmitri <uiesperanto@aol.com> writes:
>> What point do you have about Esperanto? Esperanto is
>> considerably more difficult than it has to be. It is biased
>> towards European languages
Dmitri> Oh, I totally agree that it is more difficult than it has
Dmitri> to be.......but the fact remains that it is still
Dmitri> simpler/easier than e.g. French or Spanish. I mean what
Dmitri> kind of bigotted moron could look at one verb conjugation
Dmitri> system with 6 endings total in the entire language and
Dmitri> refuse to admit it would be much easier to learn than
Dmitri> another langauge with a verb system of dozens of endings,
Dmitri> not to mention irregular verbs, same with a multipart
Dmitri> system of denoting direct object (multipart in and of
Dmitri> itself), plural, motion towards, elision of a preposition,
Dmitri> and all the differing ways of denoting all those time
Dmitri> idioms as opposed to 3 endings using 3 morphemes (o, oj,
Dmitri> ojn), the horrors of the differing forms and morphologies
Dmitri> of the (the question words and their corresponding
Dmitri> collective, demonstrative, indefinite, etc. counterparts.
Dmitri> Now, each of these areas (plus a number of others I won't
Dmitri> renumerate right now....they know what they are) is easier
Dmitri> than the corresponding area in e.g. Spanish and French,
In which of these areas is Esperanto simpler/easier than Malay,
Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese?
Dmitri> so it naturally follows that all these areas taken
Dmitri> together in Esperanto would be also easier when compared
Dmitri> with those same areas in the other languages taken
Dmitri> together.
I'd like to see you comparing Esperanto with Malay.
Dmitri> As they say: there is none so blind as he who will not
Dmitri> see.
Looking into a mirror?
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