Re: Who castrated Esperanto?


>The whole unique benefit of Esperanto is the small size of its
>vocabulary, without any loss to the range of ideas that can be
>expressed, /

Ruud> There's also a rule that any internationally used words are
Ruud> also Esperanto, after fitting them into its morphology etc.

Please precisely define what "internationally" means here.

Plijzu pricajze defini, kion mijnas tiu ĉi la vorto "internacie".


>yet here we have words imported from the Romance languages
>for meanings that could be expressed with the morphemes in the
>original specification.
>
>Esperanto for god is 'dio', for example, not "te".

Ruud> So atheist = maldikredantulo.
Ruud> So what?

Is this in fact a word empirically used by the Esperanto speaking
community? Does an Espearnto learner still *need* to learn "atheist"
in order to understand others?


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