Esperanto?

OnyxCougar · 11-02-2004, 11:56 AM

Does anyone here speak Esperanto?

I'm learning it and would like a study buddy.

Happy Monkey · 11-02-2004, 11:58 AM

Apparently the signs on the walls in Red Dwarf are in Esperanto.

OnyxCougar · 11-02-2004, 12:09 PM

Really? I did not know that.

wolf · 11-02-2004, 12:09 PM

I thought Esperanto was officially declared dead a couple years ago. Nice to see that there's some attempt at a resurgance. One of my college friends decided he wanted to learn Esperanto at one point. He would excitedly tell us things about it, particularly those aspects of grammar that made it much easier to learn.

He got as far as constructing one sentence before he quit. He was a lot better at Fortran, APL, and Assembler.

Myoi bonoi granoi domoi is about as close as I can come to rendering it.

What does it mean? "I am many big good houses."

I also once knew someone who collected "Please pass me that squirrel sandwich" in different languages. I lost that friend as a consequence of a divorce. Not my own. I was a friend of the guy that ended up with the wife.

(I've vaguely thought about learning at least one Native American Language, and dabbled at Ancient Greek, but self-study of a language is not the easiest thing.)

OnyxCougar · 11-02-2004, 12:21 PM

Some Esperanto links:

http://www.esperanto-usa.org/

http://lernu.net (where I'm learning from... on the left, under courses is "bildo kaj demando" .. "Pictures and questions")

http://donh.best.vwh.net/esperanto.php

http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/esperanto/

and about a million others... Esperanto is far from dead... And it's really easy to learn...the part that confuses me most is that it doesn't matter what order in the sentence the words are in...it means the same thing. Which is cool, but hard to wrap my mind around.

Troubleshooter · 11-02-2004, 12:29 PM

Just do latin. It's the language with the most ties to all of the rest you'll ever see anyway.

OnyxCougar · 11-02-2004, 01:00 PM

I'll be doing latin in a couple of years.

I was doing russian, but I'm waiting for my college course to do that.

I was doing Croatian, but my study partners are over there at the moment and we dont' talk enough for me to keep it fresh, so I've forgotten most of it.

I was doing Hebrew, but the vowels are really hard, so I need to take a class on that where I have instant feedback.

So now I'm doing Esperanto.

11-02-2004, 11:56 AM	#1
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Esperanto? Does anyone here speak Esperanto? I'm learning it and would like a study buddy. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

11-02-2004, 11:58 AM	#2
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Apparently the signs on the walls in Red Dwarf are in Esperanto. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

11-02-2004, 12:09 PM	#3
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Really? I did not know that. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

11-02-2004, 12:09 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I thought Esperanto was officially declared dead a couple years ago. Nice to see that there's some attempt at a resurgance. One of my college friends decided he wanted to learn Esperanto at one point. He would excitedly tell us things about it, particularly those aspects of grammar that made it much easier to learn. He got as far as constructing one sentence before he quit. He was a lot better at Fortran, APL, and Assembler. Myoi bonoi granoi domoi is about as close as I can come to rendering it. What does it mean? "I am many big good houses." I also once knew someone who collected "Please pass me that squirrel sandwich" in different languages. I lost that friend as a consequence of a divorce. Not my own. I was a friend of the guy that ended up with the wife. (I've vaguely thought about learning at least one Native American Language, and dabbled at Ancient Greek, but self-study of a language is not the easiest thing.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-02-2004, 12:21 PM	#5
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Some Esperanto links: http://www.esperanto-usa.org/ http://lernu.net (where I'm learning from... on the left, under courses is "bildo kaj demando" .. "Pictures and questions") http://donh.best.vwh.net/esperanto.php http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/esperanto/ and about a million others... Esperanto is far from dead... And it's really easy to learn...the part that confuses me most is that it doesn't matter what order in the sentence the words are in...it means the same thing. Which is cool, but hard to wrap my mind around. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

11-02-2004, 12:29 PM	#6
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Just do latin. It's the language with the most ties to all of the rest you'll ever see anyway. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

11-02-2004, 01:00 PM	#7
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	I'll be doing latin in a couple of years. I was doing russian, but I'm waiting for my college course to do that. I was doing Croatian, but my study partners are over there at the moment and we dont' talk enough for me to keep it fresh, so I've forgotten most of it. I was doing Hebrew, but the vowels are really hard, so I need to take a class on that where I have instant feedback. So now I'm doing Esperanto. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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