Re: "Synthetic" RMO languages.


Silverfin wrote:
The Handelmaniac wrote:
Years ago,they tried the "Esperanto experiment." taking various
elements of various languages and attempting to create something of a
"universal language" for all to use for better communication...NO
WAY,Jose!!!" You cannot ask someone to sacrifice their own
culture....i.e. their language is a part of it....although i guess they
could use their own language AND this fake thing..but who speaks
"Esperanto" today?


Me.
At least, I learned some when I was a kid in the 80s, and a tiny bit
remains in my brain.
I can say:

Pluvas katoj kaj hundoj.
Du pajnto estas sur tablo.
Kadavro estas en biblioteko.

Any of the linguists here care to try translating? No cheating.

Dankon,
Silverfin

I do not know Esperanto but just looking at it suggests a Slavic
influence to me. Was there one?

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins

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