Re: Question words and word order

ranjit_mathews_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: 5 Mar 2005 21:37:10 -0800

John Swindle wrote:
> Esperanto is billed as regular and easy to learn and as having
> only sixteen rules. Speakers of European languages certainly
> seem to find it easy to learn. But besides rules, Esperanto also
> has customary usages, and these take longer to discover.

I know about its regularity but how expressive is Esperanto?
Can one distinguish between "come" and "do come" and between "be
prepared" and "get prepared"?
Can one express sayings/ phrases like "be all you can be" and "every
fibre of my being"?
Can one express all meanings of double entendres like "get lost" and
"beat it"?
Can one capture the essence of idioms like "come on", "come to think of
it" and "coming to that"?
Can one say "the whole hog", "the extra mile" and "the midnight oil" in
Esperanto?

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