Re: Question words and word order
From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 03/06/05
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Date: 06 Mar 2005 10:39:35 +0800
>>>>> "John" == John Swindle <jcswindle@msn.deletethispart.com> writes:
John> Esperanto is billed as regular and easy to learn and as
John> having only sixteen rules. Speakers of European languages
John> certainly seem to find it easy to learn. But besides rules,
John> Esperanto also has customary usages, and these take longer
John> to discover.
It is these HIDDEN rules that make it more difficult than it is
claimed to be. Those rules are "taken for granted" by Europeans. The
fairness claim doesn't hold.
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