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> exceptions are quite rare ... are you sure we speak the same language?
by Reelin 7y ago
> exceptions are quite rare
... are you sure we speak the same language?
- aloisdg 7y agoEnglish has less exception than say French but far more than Esperanto. It is a question of reference frame.
- sk0g 7y agoYeah but two of the languages with exceptions are in active use by millions or even billions, while the cohesive one is used by a sum total of... A few dozen? Should Esperanto enter any active usage, however unlikely that is, the exceptions will come.
- taejo 7y agoBTW, Esperanto has a few _hundred_ native speakers and tens or hundreds of thousands of speakers. I agree that it's not comparable to a natural language, but there are many, many natural language communities that are much smaller.