{"id":72,"date":"2009-07-22T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-07-22T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:19:17","slug":"a-thorough-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/a-thorough-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thorough Critique!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re up for a long, thoughtful critique of Esperanto, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xibalba.demon.co.uk\/jbr\/ranto\/index.html\">Justin Rye<\/a> has compiled a massive and thorough examination of all the things he finds inadequate about the language.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only had the time to unearth this article today, much less study it! However, if you have an opinion regarding this essay (or thesis, given its size!), then please share! I&#8217;ll post again soon, with commentary.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, I&#8217;d like to point out that Section E5, concerning the elegance of Esperanto, seems to confuse the Esperanto meaning of &#8220;<strong>mal-<\/strong>&#8221; with the phonetically identical English prefix. <strong>Mi povas vidi unu problemon!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re up for a long, thoughtful critique of Esperanto, Justin Rye has compiled a massive and thorough examination of all the things he finds inadequate about the language. I&#8217;ve only had the time to unearth this article today, much less study it! 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