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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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In article <3k2pfa$gfr@due.unit.no>
           jardar@nvg.unit.no "Jardar Eggesb Abrahamsen" writes:
> >No, I think Esperanto is quite easy. But IMO Eurolang is quite a lot easier
> >for people with a Romance language (1) (and I expect most Germans know quite
> >a few Romance roots), and possibly slightly easier for people who don't 
> >speak any European language (2).
> >
> >The reason for (2) is that EL should have slightly less roots to learn 
> >than E-o, because it forms more words from 1 root. Eg:
> >
> >English        Eurolang       Esperanto
> >-------        --------       ---------
> >to eat         mang           mangxi
> >food           manged         nutrajxo
> >
> >("nutricious food" in EL would be "sana manged"(healthy food), or
> >"bona manged"(good food)).
> 
> English           Esperanto (with a hyphen between the morphs)
> -------           ---------
> to eat            mangx-i
> food              mangx-ajx-o
> meal              mangx-o
> nutricious        nutr-a
> nutrition         nutr-ajx-o
> nutricious food   nutr-a mangx-ajx-o
> healthy food      san-a  mangx-ajx-o
> health            san-o
> good food         bon-a  mangx-ajx-o

_Teach Yourself Esperanto Dictionary_, by John Wells has:

   food nutrajxo
   nutrition nutrado

Is this dictionary wrong? If so, can anyone recommend a better one.

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
"on no pos fac omelet, opcum brekigation ovums"
