From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Sat Mar 27 12:29:40 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41903.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.154]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7KR2-00051K-KV for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:29:40 -0800 Message-ID: <20040327202909.20432.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.69.6.6] by web41903.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:29:09 PST Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:29:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban vs. esperanto: ease of learning vocab To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20040327200147.GE18619@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 625 X-Approved-By: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar 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: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:58:39AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > > but why would lojban vocabulary be > > easier for chinese to learn than esperanto? > > Because Esperanto assumes that you can pronounce most European > languages. Pronunciationwise, there can't be that much difference between the two. The phoneme inventory of Lojban is almost identical to the one of Esperanto. The only differences I can think of are that Lojban treats "ts", "tc" and "dj" as two phonemes and Esperanto as one, and that Esperanto doesn't have Lojban's "y". If Esperanto assumes that you can pronounce most European languages, then so does Lojban. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html