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| tmesis Senior Member Mayotte Joined 6652 days ago 154 posts - 146 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 15 22 July 2007 at 10:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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| awake Senior Member United States Joined 6640 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 2 of 15 22 July 2007 at 11:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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Esperanto is an Agglutinative Language, and it is VERY rich in its use of
adverbs. Certainly one can express oneself clearly in esperanto without resorting to a lot of adverbs, beginners don't often use them that much and do fine. But the way adverbs work in Esperanto allows you to express fine shades of meaning very elegantly. More advanced speakers tend to use them a lot more in my experience. So maybe that rises out of the agglutinative structures, or perhaps something else. It's an interesting question. I'll be curious to see if anyone else has thoughts on your question. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kinoko Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6640 days ago 103 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Japanese, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 15 22 July 2007 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Esperanto is not a true language don't even bring that up.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6601 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 15 22 July 2007 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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What do you mean by not a true language? If it's spoken and even has literature written in it, it certainly has the right to be a language.
Although I didn't know it's an agglutinative one. Yes, it has a lot of suffices, but suffices showing shades of meaning and suffices showing grammar aspects are probably different, aren't they?? if they aren't then one can claim Russian is an agglutinative language for the same reason - it also has loads of various suffices. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6632 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 5 of 15 22 July 2007 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
Your opinion is not needed in this matter. You bring up a COMPLETELY un-related subject into this discussion. Nobody cares whether you think Esperanto isn't a 'true' language or not. I think Esperanto is just as real as English. It started off artificial, yes. But people used different styles of speaking and took things from their native languages, and now esperantists speak very differently from the original language. So um...learn when to keep quiet? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6695 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 15 22 July 2007 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think that is a fair statement. Yes, Esperanto was started artificially, but look at how far it is has come. Many people believe it should be considered a natural language now. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tmesis Senior Member Mayotte Joined 6652 days ago 154 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 15 22 July 2007 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7025 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 8 of 15 22 July 2007 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Your reply seems a bit harsh. Is kinoko not allowed to voice his opinion, as you are? One might also argue that no one cares what you think of kinoko's opinion of Esperanto. I would not say that though, since it would not be very nice ;) By the way, I happen to agree with you in that Esperanto is a valid language. It is spoken more widely than some natural languages. Edited by orion on 22 July 2007 at 2:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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