Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

"dmitri" == dmitri mosier/iowa city, Iowa <drm969@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ruud> These possibilities are rarely used, because most
Ruud> usersemploy the language is ways resembling their own
Ruud> language. But the mechanisms exist in Esperanto, which is  
Ruud> what makes it unique.

>> So, Esperanto is  difficult to learn.  You not only  need to
>> learn the above possibilities (which are rarely  used), but
>> also learn what most users employ,  which resembles their  own
>> languages.  That's a  lot of things to learn.   Russian
>> speakers speak Esperanto in  a very Russian way.   Hungarian
>> speakers  speak Esperanto  in a  very  Hungarian way. Japanese
>> speakers speak Esperanto in a very Japanese way, ...

dmitri> Not difficult SD.......in Ruud's list you only have 5
dmitri> things you have to learn.......and four of them can be
dmitri> used with other words so the usefulness outweighs any
dmitri> supposed "difficulty"

Do I need the remaining item if I want to _understand_ others'
Esperanto?



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