Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

Tom Wier wrote:

> <sigh> I always seem to be getting my foot in my mouth... ;)
Welcome to the club. That's the risk of trying to say anything interesting.

> Many of the posts I read on <sci.lang> had little if anything to do with
> Esperanto, per se, but more were just attacks on any kind of complex
> morphology whatsoever. This was a legitimate opinion to hold, but
Is it? I'd like half an excuse to revert to a totally 100% isolating
syntax without any morphology. AFAIK, English and Chinese are furthest
out on that limb. Even creoles have some morphology.

It was rather a weird choice by Zamenhof to use agglutination.
I don't think he knew Turkish, so he "should" have gone heavily
for cases. Maybe some Finnish chick dumped him? ACK! Foot in mouth!