Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto?

From: Manuel M Campagna (fa192_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: 17 Feb 2005 20:57:42 GMT

Aidan Kehoe (kehoea@parhasard.net) writes:
> Ar an dara lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh 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!

I found accusatives to be very helpful when I studied Latin, Ancient
Greek, German, and Russian. What I find very unhelpful is the diversity
of forms of accusative in each of these languages. Esperanto has a simple
accusative.

The noun-adjective concord in my native French, in Italian, Latin, Ancient
Greek, German, and Russian, is extremely useful. What I find very
unhelpful is the diversity of forms of nouns and adjectives in those
languages. Esperanto has a simple noun-adjective concord.

> > 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.

You are confusing lists of irregular verbs with conjugation tables.
Except for a couple of verbs such as to have and to be, as long as you
know the basic verb forms (love, loved, loved; seek, sought, sought;
go, went, gone; etc), there are hardly any variations (second person
singular if you insist on it; and third person singular in the present
indicative).

> > I agree with Z on both counts.
> > [...] One can assume that one day some Chinese AtatÜrk will make pinyin
> > compulsory.
> No. The moment has passed; cf.
> http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_faroutliers_archive.html#108286192290665647

British historian Arnold Toynbee predicted that at the end of time the
Chinese and French Canadians would be there. He didn't say anything about
English.

There is more than enough time for the Chinese to make pinyin compulsory.

> > The Public Library computer I am using doesn't recognize your precious
> > Irish diacritics.
> Then it’s not up to much; ISO 8859 1 isn’t the bleeding edge of
> technology, and hasn’t been for fifteen years, at least. >

But it's free of charge to card-carrying members.
;-D)))

Manuel

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