BPFK Member: John Cowan: Difference between revisions

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-The core of Esperanto propaganda has long been the claim that it has [http://www.webcom.com/~donh/Esperanto/rules.html 6 rules] (''dekses reguloj'') of grammar.
-Properly put, the [[jbocre: baseline|baseline]] of Esperanto (the ''Fundamento'') has 16 rules, stated very elliptically, and intended for people already familiar with European grammars. Good standard Classical Esperanto, as used by [[jbocre: Zamenhof|Zamenhof]] and his contemporaries, emulated by the modern cultural elite, and codified in the ''Plena Analiza Gramatiko'', obviously has a good deal more than 16 rules of grammar.
-Outside the elite, the "16 rules" recur in Esperanto propaganda, and instigated [http://www.lojban.org/files/why-lojban/lojb_esp.txt  piece of counter-polemic], written by [[jbocre: Athelstan|Athelstan]], in which Lojban was described as having only "10 rules". The point of the exercise was that the "16 rules" are nonsensical as a be-all and end-all of Esperanto grammar, and cannot be used to lord it over Lojban. The counterpolemic instigated [http://groups.google.com/groups?q=harlow+lojban&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=3&selm=3B6ED68C.6DA152F4%40hotmail.com ounter-counterpolemics], and so forth.