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Re:Confessions of a Math Idiot on Friday August 21, 2009 @02:24AM (#777112)

The author of that article is well known in the Esperanto world for being the author of that article... and nothing more ;)

A true expert in Esperanto, the linguist and psychologist Claude Piron, debunked that article years ago:

http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/why.htm

Re:Invented languages and their long history of failure. on Sunday August 02, 2009 @03:39PM (#737959)

Those are too many unwarranted assertions and plain non-sequiturs in a single paragraph. At this point it seems clear that I won't convince you, no matter what arguments I employ; and that of course you won't convince me with those theoretical unwarranted assertions and obvious non-sequiturs, as I know from experience that Esperanto is clearly easier than English.

So, at this point, it is better that people interested in getting objective information take some basic course and decide for themselves. Fortunately, there are very good basic courses that can be easily completed in 2-3 weeks.

There is a very good downloadable course at:

http://ikurso.net

Also there are plenty of online courses at:

http://lernu.net

Re:Invented languages and their long history of failure. on Sunday August 02, 2009 @06:29AM (#737290)

You said --- Thank you for the link. I challenge the accuracy of the statement "Time needed to reach a standard equivalent to A-level[4]" ---

Two questions:

1.- Did you have access to the whole study? Can you precise the method, results, etc.?

2.- What about the other thirteen statements? Don't they seem to indicate that Esperanto should be a lot easier than English?

Re:Invented languages and their long history of failure. on Saturday August 01, 2009 @08:45AM (#736256)

Well, see this:

http://www.esperanto-sat.info/article347.html

Best regards,

Re:Invented languages and their long history of failure. on Saturday August 01, 2009 @08:09AM (#736232)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Claude+Piron%22

but:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Justin+B.+Rye%22

Re:Invented languages and their long history of failure. on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:34PM (#734899)

The author of that article is well known in the Esperanto world for being the author of that article... and nothing more ;)

A true expert in Esperanto, the linguist and psychologist Claude Piron, debunked that article years ago:

http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/why.htm