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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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In article <D5tBnM.8Gv@cix.compulink.co.uk>
           antony@cix.compulink.co.uk "Antony Rawlinson" writes:
> > If Esperanto is so universal, why is it so much easier for those
> > speaking European languages?  It has often been accused of being
> > Eurocentric and ignoring other world languages in its makeup.
> 
> Esperanto is sometimes confused with Occidental and Interlingua, which 
> were specifically designed to be easily understood, without separate 
> study, by someone familiar with Romance and Germanic languages (like Phil 
> Hunt's new project Eurolang). 

yes, di est la plus importanta fin de Eurolang.

> They can genuinely be accused of being 
> Eurocentric.

It's a feature, not a bug.
 
> Although Esperanto uses mostly european-based vocabulary, the syntax and 
> word-formation are designed to follow logic, rather than existing 
> languages. This IMO makes it genuinely international,

la word-facation de Eurolang est equaleta rel Esperanto (la plus granda
opequalnes est ka Eurolang no hav la "-n" acusativa cas), raisonop me 
pense, ka Eurolang est proxae inter-nationa rel Esperanto. 

Euorlang's word-building is similar to Esperanto's ( the biggest
differnce is that Engloang doesn't have the "-n" accusative case), so
IMO Eurolang is about as international as Esperanto.

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
"on no pos fac omelet, opcum brekigation ovums"
