[lojban-beginners] lojban vs. esperanto: ease of learning vocab

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 2004-03-27 5:21:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> lojban vocabulary, for chinese-speaking people at any rate, has to be as 
> easy or more easy than esperanto vocabulary...
> 

greg, i accept with some reservation that a chinese would find lojban
grammar easier to learn than esperanto, because of lojban's
optionality (is that a word?), but why would lojban vocabulary be
easier for chinese to learn than esperanto?  esperanto words have lots
of information (part of speech, affix meanings, similarity to other
words) that help identify the meaning.  and there is a lot more
cohesion or system in esperanto roots than in gismu, which have NO
system at all.  granted, chinese was used to create the gismu in the
first place, but i doubt that is as helpful as it was originally
hoped.  the fact that english and other languages i know were used in
creating the gismu has not been all that helpful in learning the
vocab.  the forms of the gismu just have no (or too little) similarity
to the source language forms.
stevo