From: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@panix.com>
To: mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Re: New Proposed Xconq Web Site Online
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410010545.i915jCm04704@panix5.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415CC790.7010909@phy.cmich.edu> (message from Eric McDonald on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:57:20 -0600)
> Kaj vi povas relerni nur per klopodi.
> "And you are able to _____ ____ by/through ____." (?)
Hint #1: "relerni" is a compound, "re/lern/i".
Hint #2: I could have said "sole" in place of "nur".
Not sure I can give a hint on "klopodi"; I don't actually know its
etymology.
> "do ne konfuzighu" -> "that one must not confuse" -> "that one must be
> careful not to make" (??)
Hint #1: "konfuzighu" is a compound, "konfuz/igh/u".
Hint #2: Esperanto has 6 accented characters, 5 of which are ASCIIfied
by adding "h" at the end. One of them appears here.
Hint #3: -igh- doesn't have a close English equivalent; you might need
some more examples to get it.
> I am going to have to figure out "pri"; I have seen it several times now.
Vi bezonas lerni pri la vorto "pri".
> (1) I have detected no repeated consonants or vowels thus far.
The only counterexample I can think of is the one and only one
Esperanto word I know of with an irregular spelling, "finna". It's a
good reason to use the word "suoma" instead. There might be examples
where the last letter of the first part of a compound word is the same
as the first letter of the second part, but even that I'm not sure of
- it wouldn't be easy to pronounce.
Another spelling/pronunciation example is that the word "aeroplano"
tends to be avoided by most esperantists I know, in favor of
"aviadilo", for reasons of sonority.
> (2) I have detected no potential diphthongs thus far.
My Esperanto book lists 6 diphthongs. And no, this isn't a trick: a,
e, i, o, and u are all monophthongs. Some of the diphthongs are quite
common, and have been seen many times in the Esperanto text on the
list so far.
> I suppose the language is intended to be lexically simple as well as
> grammatically simple....
Ho jes. La celo de esperanto estas ke ghi estu simpla. La alia celo
estas esti neuxtrala.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-01 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 19:26 Feneric Brown
2004-09-30 0:36 ` Eric McDonald
2004-09-30 23:49 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-10-01 5:00 ` [Offtopic] " Eric McDonald
2004-10-01 5:55 ` Jim Kingdon [this message]
2004-10-01 18:37 ` Eric McDonald
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