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From: ddg@cci.com (D. Dale Gulledge)
Subject: Re: Concerning the number of esperantists
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In article <4ud87j$3pg@mn5.swip.net> igor.gazdik@mailbox.swipnet.se (Igor GAZDIK) writes:

   #In article <4tvrf4$38t@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>, sjzaft@ix.netcom.co 
   #says...
   #>

   #>What are some of the specific ways in which the grammar of Interlingua
   #>is many times simpler than the grammar of Esperanto?
   #>

	   the interlingua grammar can be learned in 30 minutes.
	   the esperanto grammar: maybe in 3 years, or so...

I will reserve judgement about the ease with which the Interlingua grammar can
be learned because I am not familiar with it.  However, I can state for a fact
that I learned the Esperanto grammar, including all of the affixes used to
derive a rather considerable vocabulary, in about 100 hours of studying.  Most
of that was simply repetition, which is necessary to memorize any subject.
That 100 hours was spread over several months because I don't have a great
deal of free time.

- Dale
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D. Dale Gulledge, Software Engineer
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