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Article #2067Re: Esperanto a natural language?
From: PC Jorgensen
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:13
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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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!hf-mac16.uio.no!user From: user@computer.uio.no (PC Jorgensen) Subject: Re: Esperanto a natural language? Message-ID: <user-230193130936@hf-mac16.uio.no> Followup-To: sci.lang Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: hf-mac16.uio.no Organization: UiO References: <21405@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1993Jan16.100356.46440@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <C14BzL.9B@spss.com> <12471@sorley.ed.ac.uk> <16B5E12A48.JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:13:36 GMT Lines: 22