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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 17 27 December 2010 at 7:12am | IP Logged |
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I was having this discussion with my Japanese language partner recently, so I decided to get your opinion on it.
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| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5343 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 2 of 17 27 December 2010 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
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Personally, I voted for Japanese, though I think neither Esperanto nor Japanese will become a global language. Because I'm not keen on any synthetic language.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 3 of 17 27 December 2010 at 7:52am | IP Logged |
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YoshiYoshi, with all due respect, I don't think Japanese is synthetic. Or, at least it isn't considered so outside of
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| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5343 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 4 of 17 27 December 2010 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
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Mr Leosmith, you've got me all wrong, that's not what I meant. I said I'm not keen on Esperanto (synthetic).
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 5 of 17 27 December 2010 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
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My apologies for misunderstanding.
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| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5343 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 6 of 17 27 December 2010 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
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I apologize too for making you misunderstand what I said. BTW, YoshiYoshi is the 訓読み（くんよみ） pronunciation of my Chinese first name, now can you feel my love for Japanese language and its culture? Hahaha
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| ratis Hexaglot Newbie Germany Joined 4915 days ago 28 posts - 43 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin Studies: Czech, Japanese Studies: Hindi | Message 7 of 17 27 December 2010 at 8:47am | IP Logged |
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I really like Japanese and find its non-synthetic grammar pretty straightforward once
you've gotten used to it, however, I'd still say the Kanji would be too much a barrier to allow it to catch on as a global language. People who grow up with alphabet writing systems (and who are not language nerds) would feel overwhelmed and switch back to English, Spanisch, French etc. Maybe it could work with Kana only? I also doubt that artificial languages as Esperanto can ever become popular enough to reach the critical mass needed for a language to become lingua franca. But if you would ask me what I personally would choose, it'd nevertheless be Esperanto, because with a background of several other European languages, I think I could pick it up at the drop of a hat. (Which is definitely NOT the case with Japanese, as much as I like it.) Edited by ratis on 28 December 2010 at 2:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6282 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 8 of 17 27 December 2010 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
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I wonder what this poll would be like if it was German vs. Esperanto...
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