Question to Esperantists - Its cleverness (Esperanto) Language Learning Forum

Question to Esperantists - Its cleverness
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Language Learning Forum : Esperanto

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Recht
Diglot
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Message 17 of 18

01 May 2009 at 6:49pm | IP Logged

cordelia0507 wrote:

When I think about the blood, sweat and tears I have spent on learning English I just
feel like crying! And people in the English speaking world get that huge advantage for
free! They can go all their lives without learning a foreign language unless they want
to!

You as a Swede could go your entire life without learning English, too. People don't
drop dead if they don't learn English :) You just find it advantageous to learn
English, and good for you. Nothing worth having is easy getting.
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ennime
Tetraglot
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universityofbrokengl
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Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans
Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu

Message 18 of 18

02 May 2009 at 6:15pm | IP Logged

I learned Esperanto because I was curious how it would feel to study a conlang,
Esperanto was the easiest choice (not because it is the easiest conlang, but because
there is so much material to learn it compared to other conlangs). Part of the reason
was also, that if I was going to learn a conlang I wanted a reasonable source of
people to talk it with.

I find however that I tend to disagree with a lot that the Esperanto movement
propagates, and find that while in it's more than a century long history it developed a lot of complexities that are not as "easy" for a supposedly"very easy language". I
can actually see how, because of it's flexible grammar structure, a lot of
constructions from other languages are used in esperanto because of the habits.

On the neutrality bit... I don't think it's that neutral, especially not with the
recent European "Esperanto party" essentially enforcing a more European sense of the
language... if it's suppose to be neutral, trying to make it into an official
language, or even working language, of a regional political entity makes that idea a
bit empty.

paparaciii wrote:

Esperanto is bullshit.

No paparaciii, your post is... if you haven't got anything constructive to add, pro or
con or whatever, stop polluting the thread please.
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