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Re: Esperanto
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2007, 03:34:01 PM »
i thought you meant esperanza, california.
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Re: Esperanto
« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2007, 03:51:00 PM »
What was wrong with having everyone speak Klingon?  :'(

I'd imagine the Swede's would have an easier time pronouncing it because it's more similar to their language.

I wouldn't want to give them an unfair advantage.  ;)

It's similar to Swedish? :0 I doubt it, from what little I've seen of it.
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Re: Esperanto
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2007, 04:11:19 PM »
What was wrong with having everyone speak Klingon?  :'(

I'd imagine the Swede's would have an easier time pronouncing it because it's more similar to their language.

I wouldn't want to give them an unfair advantage.  ;)

It's similar to Swedish? :0 I doubt it, from what little I've seen of it.

Most of the German language sounde like a cat coughing up a furball.

Swedish is germanic and Klingon sounds like German.

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Re: Esperanto
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2007, 05:12:04 PM »
Hey, I have a german friend from nursing school.....of course she would be proud to say she speaks like a cat coughing up a hairball.  But, then she's crazy like me.....thats why we're friends! :evillaugh:

Esperanto is a language concocted by a bunch of people with too much time on their hands, too much idealism and way too much hope that humans would ever give up their petty nationalisms.

Oh BTW, did I ever mention that I was an optimistic cynic! :evillaugh: