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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:47:58 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: All-Esperanto TV Channel
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> What does this mean:
> *_Jen_nia_Mondo_* - Hungario, la lando madjara ?
>  Anyway, I do not know Esperanto. :-\ How many do? 2,000,000?
> Still not much.
>  mi'e xiLI,odor.
>
I don't know how many understand Swedish, either -- maybe 20 000 000?
Maybe half that? How many people understand gutamål/Gutnish? Maybe 5000
people, maybe 50000 people.
2 000 000 people is a LOT.

I find Esperanto remarkably guessable -- from your example, I'd gather
mondo is world and hungario is hungary and land is land and maybe madjara
has a connection to magyar but probably not.

I also think that Esperanto is the most sexist language I've ever
encountered, even worse than the latin languages like french/italian. A
language where patro means father and patrino means mother!

I use and prefer rirni but at least mamta isn't "fetpatfu" in lojban,
there are two different names with different etymologies.