Re: Esperanto and Interlingua

On Mar 13, 4:09 pm, "Jens S. Larsen" <jens_s_lar...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
dmitri mosier/iowa city, Iowa:

On Mar 13, 11:58 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 13, 5:31 am, "Jens S. Larsen"
It has been claimed that Esperanto is more natural than other
languages, which makes sense if you look upon regularity as a natural
feature of language.
Would anyone do that besides Herman?
apparently speakers of quechua do........turkish......all languages in
fact. Why else the trend toward regularization by analogy?

Why then the trend toward deregularization by sound-change?

You beat me to it ... there is a perpetual war between laziness and
communicative success. If it weren't for the latter, every utterance
would eventually have turned into "aaaaaaaaaa." (Pronounced
[VVVVVVVVVVV].)

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