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| Phil_K Diglot Newbie Mexico Joined 6133 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese, Esperanto | Message 17 of 18 21 February 2008 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||
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A danger of this approach though, is that we don't end up speaking the same language, which kinda defeats the object!
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 18 of 18 22 February 2008 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
I wouldn't say so. I see the danger in using lots of extra European roots more than in the "bona lingvo" approach, for the reason that most speakers learned Esperanto as a foreign language, which means that the average vocabulary of an Esperanto speaker is likely to be small. This means that if you use additional European-derived word roots, people may not have learned them and non-Europeans won't have any chance of recognizing them, which leads to a communication problem. However, if you use the "bona lingvo" approach and create a lot of words based on simple word roots that are taught in any course, you will be understood by everybody who learned Esperanto. They might personally prefer a synonym, like "sanigejo" to "malsanulejo", but they will definitely understand you and you will definitely understand them. Also, most Esperanto courses will teach "malsanulejo" and similar very useful compound words while teaching the affixes. One area where you can find many extra European roots is poetry, because poets always use a larger vocabulary than others; they have to have a larger selection of words in order to fit with the rhythm and rhyme. Edited by Sprachprofi on 22 February 2008 at 11:28am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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