Mark Williamson
08/05/2002

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> And if it's your first conlang, you'll see it's simpler than your own
> language (genderless and simple verbs, which are still very precise(although
> not allways required)).

If I speak Malay, then it won't be simpler. It will give genderless,
timeless, as well as personless verbs, with no conjugation as well. It
will offer no articles at all, let alone the gender choice (that's
what Esperanto is so braggy about-- no gendered articles! Big whoop!).
No gendered nouns, either. Limited plurals. No tones.

> This already motivates people to learn it. And I have found Esperantists to
> be a very friendly bunch of people. Also another important motivation for
> learning the lang.
Yes :)

But don't most? I hope :x

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.esperanto/k0ULgjo-1Ms%5B276-300%5D

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NB: looks Malay and #TokiPona are quite alike morphologically speaking ...