Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?

From: Aidan Kehoe (kehoea_at_parhasard.net)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:54:15 +0100

 Ar an dara l獺 d矇ag de m穩 Feabhra, scr穩obh Manuel M. Campagna:

> > Then it is more of a puzzle to me that he felt that declining nouns and
> > have adjectives agree with them was a good idea.
>
> He realized that English was all the more difficult because it lacks a
> simple accusative and noun-adjective concord.

Haha!

> However, there is one good thing he found in English: the absence of
> complex and irregular verb tables such as exist in latin, Greek, Romance
> languages, Russian and Polish.

The verb tables of English are sufficiently irregular that one would have to
have a very impoverished imagination to view them as much of an advantage
over the languages you mention.

> I agree with Z on both counts.
>
> [...] One can assume that one day some Chinese Atatrk will make pinyin
> compulsory.

No. The moment has passed; cf.
 
http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_faroutliers_archive.html#108286192290665647

> The Public Library computer I am using doesn't recognize your precious
> Irish diacritics.

Then its not up to much; ISO 8859 1 isnt the bleeding edge of technology,
and hasnt been for fifteen years, at least. 

-- 
Ah come on now Ted, a Volkswagen with a mind of its own, driving all over
the place and going mad, if thats not scary I dont know what is.

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