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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Fear of a LOJBAN planet
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Organization: That would be telling.
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:28:10 GMT
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chakravorty bonnie jean <bchakrav@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> says:
:  Question - how does this language differ (in substance, not content)
: from Esperanto? I took an intro course on Esperanto a while back so
: I can't recall the ways in which Esperanto handled gender etc.  . . .

Neither Esperanto nor Lojban has grammatical gender.  Nor has English
or, as far as I know, any other language designed to be international.

Esperanto's roots are taken (nearly) whole from European languages, 
with a few arbitrary elements (the word for `everywhere' is opaque 
if you don't know the system).  Lojban's roots are blended from
eight(?) major languages, in a way intended to make it `neutral'.
-- 
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I wasn't always anarcho-capitalist, you know.	--   Ubi scriptum?
