Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!phri!cmcl2!csd2!agrawal From: agrawal@csd2.UUCP (Try m/c ACF6) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Easy languages (number of vowels: English vs. Esperanto) Message-ID: <3550004@csd2.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 18:57:00 EST Article-I.D.: csd2.3550004 Posted: Mon Feb 10 18:57:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 21:04:45 EST References: <77@druhi.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 28 > >English is definitely the easiest language. I'm surprised that this >isn't obvious to everyone; it's simply incontestable that English is >the only language which is perfectly suited to typewriter keyboards. > >As for spoken language, it has been proven that English is the easiest >language because all other languages are derived from it. This was > >Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa >40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 decvax!utah-cs!donn I am surprised to find that people think that English is the easiest language to learn. I guess it is because that is what is spoken in the US and children are always listening to it. Also most European Languages are derived from English and have a large number of words from common roots. Even many Esparanto words seem to be having European roots. However, I beleive that Indians have extraordinary difficulty in learning English if they are not taught it from childhood. It is because of the extremely non phonetic nature of English whereas most Indian Languages are phonetic in nature. When we start learning and start with the simple words, we immediately get confused on thef pronounciation of words like ,,... Mukul Agrawal agrawal@csd2