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Ben!
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Message 73 of 83 (324711)
06-22-2006 3:37 AM
Reply to: Message 53 by rgb
06-20-2006 1:29 PM


Re: The grammar organ - is there one?
rgb,
Can you be a little more specific / detailed with what you're saying here? Statements like
I'm not talking about just the difference in accent. I'm talking about extremely poor grammar and disjointed sentences.
sound exactly the same as statements made by people who haven't taken the time to fully study and understand a language. Can you post something that can help the rest of us understand exactly what you're talking about? A technical paper, a reference, a transcript, movie, something?
Thanks!

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Ben!
Member (Idle past 1429 days)
Posts: 1161
From: Hayward, CA
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Message 74 of 83 (324712)
06-22-2006 3:41 AM
Reply to: Message 69 by nwr
06-21-2006 10:19 PM


Re: The grammar organ - is there one?
I think we can take studies of the nativization of Esperanto as backing up what you're describing here. For example, work by Ben Bergen:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/
In the meantime, the now deceased original language designers are turning in their graves, horrified at the extent to which their originally elegant grammar has become corrupted
In a sense, what was originally created was not a human language. It only approximated one.

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