Re: Question words and word order

From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: 06 Mar 2005 17:20:22 +0800

>>>>> "ranjit" == ranjit mathews@yahoo com <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> writes:

    ranjit> 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.

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

Can one say in English what we Cantonese say [k@m22 lip5] and [tsE51]? 

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