CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 1999, 19:46 |
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On 8 Jun 99, at 2:05, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tun wrote:
> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 07/06/99 22:23:29 , Ed a =E9crit :
> > Really! I hadn't read his "search for the perfect language" book
yet.
> > Is that where it all ends? Esperanto?
> >
>
> maybe he found out that you can't find out anything, so he'd better
> support the most motivated auxlang activists. (;-) you know, i'm always
> amazed esperantists are so convinced it is the best ial.
Vorlin has neat features like deriving prepositions with -u, well-
defined morphophonemics, and always marking transitive vs.
intransitive verbs clearly .
Esperanto has neat features like Kalman Kalocsay, Raymond
Schwartz, and Claude Piron. I.e., people and books, plenty of
them.
Jim Henry III
Jim.Henry@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm
*gjax zaxnq-box baxm-box goq.