Comment 67S2 Not really neutral

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Pipedot adopting Esperanto

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Not really neutral (Score: 3, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-04-01 17:48 (#67S2)

While it's a nice idea, the language suffers from being too Euro-centric. There are some unnecessary rules copied from European languages. For instance, modifying an adjective based on the modification of the noun. They have it in German but not in English and nothing is lost.

Gender nouns like he/she/it are also useless. Usually, the gender of the person we're talking about has no bearing on the subject but we use it anyway. How do we refer to people with undetermined sex in Esperanto? These are not uncommon, people you only know from internet comments are by default in this group.. They did get rid of this for ordinary objects (like feminine ships etc) but not for people, blah.

I also don't care for three consonants in a row, like in 'skribi' etc. There IS a wovel between 's' and 'k', just write it down, mac.

How about we open a section with a LISP-like syntax tree based on English or something?

(could we (filter-out (SETOF x (past (say someone x)))))

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Time Reason Points Voter
2015-04-01 18:21 Informative +1 bryan@pipedot.org
2015-04-01 19:02 Interesting +1 gerty@pipedot.org
2015-04-02 16:41 Informative +1 tierack@pipedot.org

Junk Status

Marked as [Not Junk] by zenbi@pipedot.org on 2015-04-19 07:31