From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 27 12:01:47 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7K03-0004XL-7r for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:01:47 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:01:47 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban vs. esperanto: ease of learning vocab Message-ID: <20040327200147.GE18619@digitalkingdom.org> References: <75.25784671.2d96d47f@wmconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <75.25784671.2d96d47f@wmconnect.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 623 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:58:39AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > > In a message dated 2004-03-27 5:21:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > > lojban vocabulary, for chinese-speaking people at any rate, has to > > be as easy or more easy than esperanto vocabulary... > > greg, i accept with some reservation that a chinese would find lojban > grammar easier to learn than esperanto, because of lojban's > optionality (is that a word?), but why would lojban vocabulary be > easier for chinese to learn than esperanto? Because Esperanto assumes that you can pronounce most European languages. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui