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From: antony@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Antony Rawlinson")
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 01:14:31 GMT
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> > Esperanto is sometimes confused with Occidental and Interlingua, 
> > which were specifically designed to be easily understood, without 
> > separate study, by someone familiar with Romance and Germanic 
> > languages (like Phil Hunt's new project Eurolang). 
> 
> yes, di est la plus importanta fin de Eurolang.
> 
> > They can genuinely be accused of being 
> > Eurocentric.
> 
> It's a feature, not a bug.
>
> ...  
>
> Euorlang's word-building is similar to Esperanto's ( the biggest
> differnce is that Engloang doesn't have the "-n" accusative case), so
> IMO Eurolang is about as international as Esperanto.
> 
> Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk

I don't believe that a language can at the same time be recognisable to 
someone who hasn't studied it and also follow independent word-formation. 
 In another posting (in <soc.culture.esperanto>, you describe the 
formation of the E-L word "opmortizovera" which means "pregnant".  I 
doubt very much that this would mean anything to someone unfamiliar with 
E-L, or that s/he could make sense of a sentence containing many such 
results of E-L word-building.  Yet being recognisable without separate 
study was your first stated aim.

I'm not criticising either policy, by the way, I'm simply saying that you 
can't follow both at the same time.

Antony Rawlinson.
