{"id":74,"date":"2009-07-31T00:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T04:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-07-31T00:43:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T04:43:43","slug":"con-sonants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/con-sonants\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Con&#8221;-sonants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for the horrible pun. I have no idea what possessed me to do that. A decent essay found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joerg-rhiemeier.de\/Conlang\/ranto.html\">here<\/a> suggests that part of Esperanto&#8217;s sometimes limited appeal stems from its excessive use of consonants. Admittedly, I&#8217;ve always preferred the sibilant over the guttural&#8230;It&#8217;s part of the reason why I decided to study Spanish back in high school over German. I like the point this particular writer raises about the Esperanto character &#8220;hx.&#8221; There&#8217;s a reason we rarely encounter it &#8211; nobody wants to try to pronounce it!<\/p>\n<p>So, since I have a definite language bias, in that I prefer Romance languages over Germanic and other language families, I somewhat agree with the assessment that too many consonants hurt a language, although my opinion is that it harms the beauty moreso than the functionality. I doubt that the abundance of consonants alone hampers our favorite language that much.<\/p>\n<p>What do you all think? Can consonants be a bad thing? Or is it all dependent upon one&#8217;s manner of thinking? Let us know your opinion. After all, what is a blog without reader input?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for the horrible pun. I have no idea what possessed me to do that. A decent essay found here suggests that part of Esperanto&#8217;s sometimes limited appeal stems from its excessive use of consonants. Admittedly, I&#8217;ve always preferred the sibilant over the guttural&#8230;It&#8217;s part of the reason why I decided to study Spanish&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/con-sonants\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[7738],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language","tag-criticism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}