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- From: user@computer.uio.no (PC Jorgensen)
- Subject: Re: Esperanto a natural language?
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:13:36 GMT
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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
-