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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:58:39AM -0500, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> 
> 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?  

Because Esperanto assumes that you can pronounce most European
languages.

-Robin

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