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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) writes in a recent posting (reference <3rsvmu$97f@medici.trl.oz.au>):
>The problem with Esperanto is that its vocabulary has been
>created in a haphazard manner, a bit of Germanic here, of
>Romance there, without any regard for historical phonological
>changes either. The result is that, if you can struggle
>through an Esperanto with just a knowledge of English,
>German, French and Italian (or Spanish), you can *never*
>predict what this or that word will be in Esperanto.

Certainly the same argument could be applied to English, a
haphazard combination of Germanic, Old French and New Latin,
with a serious dose of Greek thrown in just to confuse...

Miko.


