[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban qua lingua franca

[GREGORY DYKE <gregory.dyke@epfl.ch>]

 I'd say that lojban grammar is slightly more difficult to grasp than that of most other languages. But once grasped, most of it cant be learnt within a few days.

Although there is no way of proving this at the moment, lojban vocabulary, for chinese-speaking people at any rate, has to be as easy or more easy than esperanto vocabulary...

Greg



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----- Original Message -----
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:38 pm
Subject: [lojban-beginners] lojban qua lingua franca

> In a message dated 2004-03-22 5:22:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> everything i've heard makes me think that esperanto is very popular 
> in both 
> china and japan.  there doesn't seem to be much baggage inhibiting 
> them.  
> 
> i found esperanto to be very easy.  i find lojban to be very hard 
> to learn, 
> especially the vocabulary.  my opinion is still that all language 
> groups will 
> find lojban equally DIFFICULT to learn.
> stevo
> 
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