Excuse me, I should amend that.
It does have rules, but it doesn't have specific rules governing sentence formation -- there are dozens of equally acceptable "alternatives" for just about every grammatical construction and just about every vocabulary item.
Mark
On 10/04/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
The point is, Europanto is not a language in the narrow definition of the word.
Can it be used for communication? Yes. But does it have a more or less codified set of rules and words that are used to speak it? No. It's basically linguistic anarchy.
Mark
On 10/04/06, europanto europanto@gmail.com wrote:
Well, joke language or not, it is a language. Its grammar is a set of all european language grammars. Why doesn't it have a unique grammar ? Because there's no common grammar among all european languages, so why choose one instead of another. You just adapt it to the vocabulary you use locally in your sentence ( for example ). It has cultural and historical background. Anyway, I'm not here to defend Europanto 'till I die. Or you're a language purist and you'll never admit it as a language, or you're not that narrow-minded and you see what's the point of it, or ... you were kind of seduced and even if you're not a linguist, you decide to support that "way of thinking".
By the way I must admit that I won't kill myself if there isn't a europanto wikipedia ;o)
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