[ivan_gammel]

Because they thought that a word is something said in a human language that they can understand.

[Joker_vD]

Mi ne pensas ke lingvoj kiuj usas ekskluzive la basan latinan alfabeton estas komprepeneblaj per si mem.

[luismedel]

Cool how my native language is Spanish and I can almost-understand 80% of Esperanto.

[actionfromafar]

Ze riform iz komplit.

[Joker_vD]

The [z] and [ð] are phonemically different in English, just as [i] and [i:] are, so it'd actually be "Ðe riform is komplijt". American rhotacism prevents us from spelling it "rifoom" as would be proper, unfortunately.