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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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In article <DUNCAN.95Feb7193445@lightning.eee.strath.ac.uk>
           duncan@lightning.eee.strath.ac.uk "Duncan THOMSON" writes:
> >>  - A smaller base vocabulary with many words being built up from affixes (a
> >>    common Finnish technique)
> 
> > This is helpful to Finns, but not so helpful to many Europeans.
> 
> You'd be surprised.  It's *extremely* helpful, and also makes
> Esperanto much more expressive (IMHO) than English.  Once I've learnt
> the word for _dog_, I don't need to learn the words for _kennel_,
> _canine_, _puppy_, _cur_, since I know them immediately.  And I
> challenge anyone to translate the phrase _denaskuloj, kiuj movadumas_
> into English in less than a dozen words...

Could you tell me what that means? I assume that "denaskulo", and
"movadumi" are the roots but they're not in my Esperanto/English 
dictionary and I don't know what they mean. (Except that "movadumi"
is something to do with continuous movement).

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
