From MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Mon Mar 22 05:39:17 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m15.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.205]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Pe9-0004WZ-D9 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:39:17 -0800 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-m15.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.2.) id j.19f.221cf9ac (18403) for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:38:43 -0500 (EST) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: <19f.221cf9ac.2d904662@wmconnect.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:38:42 EST Subject: [lojban-beginners] lojban qua lingua franca To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-archive-position: 612 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners In a message dated 2004-03-22 5:22:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > Esperanto is great if you're a native speaker of Indo-European languages, > but > carries a lot of baggage that inhibits native speakers of languages like > Swahili, Japanese, and Chinese. everything i've heard makes me think that esperanto is very popular in both china and japan. there doesn't seem to be much baggage inhibiting them. i found esperanto to be very easy. i find lojban to be very hard to learn, especially the vocabulary. my opinion is still that all language groups will find lojban equally DIFFICULT to learn. stevo --part1_19f.221cf9ac.2d904662_boundary--