[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello from Hungary!

[Bob Slaughter <rslau@mindspring.com>]

> What is an auxiliary language

For me at least, it means "a created language used in the context of a mutual 
secondary language."

Some languages, like Esperanto and Interlingua, were designed with this as a
primary feature. Others, like Lojban, have this as a secondary feature. Not 
that Lojban is poor at this; I find that it, unlike Esperanto, is at least 
equally difficult to learn for native speakers of all major language families. 
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. The only major advantage Esperanto has over 
native IE languages (and it is a *major* advabtage) is that it is uniformly 
regular in form.

What I love about Lojban is that it's contruction is *so* unusual, that it 
does force me to reconsider how I want to express things.



-- 
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