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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

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 http://ikurso.net Also there are plenty of online courses at: http://lernu.net http://lernu.net

tokenadult 17y ago
I made the suggestion above http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736241 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736241 that anyone who claims that Esperanto is easy to learn and easy to understand is welcome to post parallel texts in Esperanto alongside statements in English about how much harder English is to learn than Esperanto. People get a lot of practice in English, because of the abundant opportunities to use English to communicate, but few people make much use of Esperanto, even when arguing in favor of Esperanto. See also my extensive list of factual questions about Esperanto posted further above, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734594 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734594 which no one has answered in this thread.