Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:03:56 +0800: LEE Sau Dan
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"Ruud" == Ruud Harmsen <realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ruud> One objection to Esperanto is that meaning are rather
Ruud> sharpely defined,

I think this is a myth. Does the Esperanto word "frato" distinguish
sharply between elder brothers and younger ones? How do Spanish
"estoy" and "estar" translate into Esperanto? Is the distinction
kept?

No. That's why I said 'rather'.

Ruud> and that as a consequence, word play isn't easy in it.

There are still things like "kolego".

Some, not may. (Fibonachi is another one, as I discovered yesterday).

Ruud> One can certainly create such a language on the basis of
Ruud> Esperanto, but as it is, it is nothing like it, as I said,
Ruud> on the contrary, because Esperanto is rather direct and
Ruud> concrete, more so than many natural languages.

How direct and conrete is "forpasi", huh?

Don't know, what does it mean, for = away and pasi = pass.
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