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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Stefano MacGregor)
Subject: One point against Esperanto
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Lastatempe skribis philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk jene:
>I agree. EL grammar is quite similar to that of English, German, French,
>Spanish, Italian. It's even more similar to E-o; the main difference is
>that EL doesn't have the -n accusative ending or adjective agreement. 
>
>Since this is also the case for Mandarin and Japanese, EL should be
>easier to learn than E-o for these people.

  The Japanese particle "wo" can be considered the equivalent of 
Esperanto's accusative-N suffix.

>How many people try to misspell "cracks" as "crax"? Not many I would
>guess.

  I would imagine far fewer than the number who spell "socks" as "sox".

>...It is not much different from E-o where AFAIK /ts/ 
>can be spelt "ts" or "c".

  This was discussed recently, and it appears that "TS" and "C" are not 
pronounced the same in Esperanto.  With a vowel before "TS", the "T" is 
pronounced as part of the previous syllable, and the "S" as part of the 
following one.  "C" is always pronounced in the same syllable as the 
=following= vowel.

-- 
 --        __0       Stefano MAC:GREGOR      Mi dankas al miaj bons`ancigaj
  --     -`\<,      (s-ro)   \ma-GREG-r\         steloj, ke mi ne estas
   --   (*)/ (*)   Fenikso, Arizono, Usono           superstic`ulo.
