Bruce -
Interesting reaction to Esperanto vocabulary, which has no Portuguese
roots at all except to the extent that there are many Romance-language
roots in Esperanto, which were borrowed mainly from French or Latin
forms.
Bruce-
Thanks for the correction...
It has been 30+ years since I studied Esperanto and the reaction is a
vestige of my naivette at the time having only border Spanish and a
smattering of Greek/Latin to draw from then.
I might not have known French from Portuguese at the time... though I
*think* I would have... I certainly do now! Or maybe it was just an
intuitive affinity alignment for me.... it is likely that I'd never
seen, or heard any Portuguese until I was introduced to it during my
Esperanto Class as one of the other Romance-languages which I probably
held limited to Italian, Spanish, French at the time...
Is there a reason I would have associated Esperanto with Brazil? Did
they have a strong interest/influence on it?
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