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From: antony@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Antony Rawlinson")
Subject: Re: Esperanto-English
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 20:35:15 GMT
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pc104@cus.cam.ac.uk (P. Chau) writes:
> s_salomo@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Thierry Salomon) writes:
> |> ...
> |> It is the structure of the Esperanto sentences, its word
> |> construction system, its logic and flexibility that makes it easier 
> |> to learn than any other language even for non-europeans.
> 
> Look, how much do you know about non-European languages?

This isn't really the point.

> How much do you know about non-Europeans learning Esperanto?

Most active Esperantists have met plenty of non-European E-speakers.

> So you think that the word construction system, logic and flexibility
> of E. makes it easy for non-Europeans to learn?

Thierry does.  I do, with good reason.

> I can say for one that any alphabetical language with horrid
> conjugasions and declensions are awful for us Chinese.

This is exactly why the advantages of Esperanto over English, for 
non-Europeans, are even greater than for Europeans.

> Please stop all this unsubstantiated rubbish!

Sorry to annoy you by disagreeing with your opinions.

> If you want to go on, carry it to some newsgroup other than s.c.f.
> It does not belong here!

Quite so.  <soc.culture.french> should be left to French speakers, 
writing in French.  I admit to posting once or twice there myself, only 
because my attention was drawn to this controversy in that newsgroup.  I 
would ask people not to send their contributions to a long list of 
newsgroups, especially those which are intended for a different language. 
 Esperantists in particular should be sensitive to this.

Antony Rawlinson.
