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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
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sethg@silver.lcs.mit.edu writes in a recent posting (reference <4bcngl$mhf@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>):
>
>A former roommate, a linguistics buff, told me that some children have
>been raised with Esperanto as their first language ... and when
>learning it, they tend to introduce irregularities into the language,
>most prominently in the way they conjugate the verb for "to be."
>
>Can any Esperantists confirm any part of this story?
>
I can specifically deny the assertion of irregularities' creeping in. It
is believable that a child might speak with errors which result from
interference from another language, but this is a completely normal aspect
of polylingual acquisition. It is transient.

There are many Esperanto-speakers who have learned the language as a native
tongue; they do not introduce irregularities. Period.


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