From: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@panix.com>
To: mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: New Proposed Xconq Web Site Online
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409301655.i8UGt6F04972@panix5.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409291350130.21436-100000@leon.phy.cmich.edu> (message from Eric McDonald on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:08:01 -0400 (EDT))
> Esperanto appears to be a declined and conjugated language, like
> Latin.
Only a little bit. There are only 2 cases (subject and object),
compared with 6 (I think) for Latin, 4 for German.
And there are only 3 tenses (past, present, future), compared with
many more for romance languages.
There is no gramatical gender.
> The "j" endings are interesting; perhaps borrowed from a Slavic
> language?
Not sure where that comes from, but I have a vague recollection of
other languages which form plurals by adding "y" (or "j", but it is
the sound that would be spelled "y" in English). Italian changes the
last vowel...
> The root "lud" is probably "game" as it is in Latin, though it appears
> to be used as a verb as well,
Yup. Many roots can be used as multiple parts of speech by just
varying the ending. Like English but more so.
> "Milit" is probably a root dealing with soldier or military; similar
> to Latin. "la" is probably "the". "kongreso" is a coming together, a
> congress, a gathering, most likely. "Diplomatio" -> "Diplomacy".
Yup. In this context, "kongreso" means an Esperanto conference.
Here is the list of endings:
-a adjective
-o noun
-e adverb
-i verb (infinitive)
-is verb, past tense
-as verb, present tense
-os verb, future tense
-u verb, imperative
-j plural
-n accusative (object) case; can be combined with -a, -o, -j, etc.
> I guess I am going to have to drop in on some Esperanto
> conversations; solving linguistic puzzles is fun.
There's always http://www.lernu.net/ (but that's only for people who
read manuals - the Real Hacker(TM) will want to skip right to the
grammar book written in Esperanto - http://purl.oclc.org/NET/pmeg )
> Now we will have to see if any Klingon speakers want
> representation as well.
Klingon speakers do not *want* representation; Kling speakers *demand*
representation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 21:34 Feneric Brown
2004-09-28 22:14 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-09-28 23:47 ` D. Cooper Stevenson
2004-09-29 15:00 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-09-29 18:16 ` Eric McDonald
2004-09-30 16:59 ` Jim Kingdon [this message]
2004-10-01 2:57 ` [Offtopic] EsperantoConq Eric McDonald
2004-09-29 18:24 ` New Proposed Xconq Web Site Online Eric McDonald
2004-09-30 17:07 ` Jim Kingdon
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2004-10-06 2:02 Feneric Brown
2004-10-01 18:35 Feneric Brown
2004-10-02 2:01 ` Eric McDonald
2004-10-01 18:23 Feneric Brown
2004-10-01 5:40 Feneric Brown
2004-10-01 6:10 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-10-02 2:14 ` Eric McDonald
2004-10-02 2:51 ` mskala
2004-10-02 3:04 ` Eric McDonald
2004-10-03 17:48 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-10-03 18:36 ` Eric McDonald
2004-10-03 18:49 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-10-03 23:55 ` Eric McDonald
2004-10-01 8:07 ` Lincoln Peters
2004-10-01 18:07 ` Eric McDonald
2004-09-29 19:26 Feneric Brown
2004-09-30 0:36 ` Eric McDonald
2004-09-30 23:49 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-09-29 19:17 Eric W. Brown
2004-09-29 0:41 Eric W. Brown
2004-09-29 18:08 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-09-29 0:23 Feneric Brown
2004-09-27 18:44 D. Cooper Stevenson
2004-09-27 18:54 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-09-28 2:40 ` D. Cooper Stevenson
2004-09-28 3:25 ` Eric McDonald
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