From Esperanto999@hotmail.com Fri Jul 18 08:20:50 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: Esperanto999@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 37608 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2003 15:20:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jul 2003 15:20:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n9.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.93) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2003 15:20:49 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.157] by n9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Jul 2003 15:20:47 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:20:46 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Lojban Vs. Esperanto Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 646 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "logansq29" X-Originating-IP: 68.72.140.141 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=130792194 X-Yahoo-Profile: logansq29 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20394 --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, "Craig" wrote: > Esperanto also seeks to decrease the barrier to entry by taking words and > grammar from a great number of other languages, all of them Indo- European. > This makes it somewhat simpler to learn if you are used to Indo- European > languages. I'd hesitate to qualify Esperanto in this way, particularly in light of the great success Esperanto has enjoyed in Hungary, China and Japan, places where the prevailing language is not Indo-European. The lowering of the barrier is accomplished mainly through the highly flexible system of affixes. .i co'o mi'e grizis.