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Re: Esperanto a natural language?

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From: PC Jorgensen
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:13
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I've never learned much Esperanto myself, but wasn't/isn't one of the
points of the syntax that you could, to some extent, construct sentences
according to the rules of your native language (Germanic/Slavic/Baltic
users can put the
adjective before the noun, and Romance speakers the noun first)?

And secondly, apart from the literature written in Esperanto, isn't the 
syntax one can find in both written (letters, for instance) and spoken
Esperanto very straightforward (for IE speakers, that is)? (as determined
by the context and the nature of the situations where people who speak/know
Esperanto actually use it?)

At least, most of the examples I've seen of Esperanto in letters is of the
kind - My name is X. I live in Y. I study Z/work as a R. I wish for peace
between all peoples. 

:-)

Hope for clarification,


PC
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