Mesaĝoj: 82
Lingvo: English
Serveto (Montri la profilon) 2019-marto-22 04:37:05
AndreoAILJ:Hello, I'm a Student in an American School in Johannesburg and have to do an interview for an assignment. I've been reading about Esperanto and it sounds like an interesting language, so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to be interviewed about why they learned Esperanto, where they learned it from, and how they use it in everyday life. Thanks!I'd be happy to talk to you Andreo. My email address is troylfullerton@gmail.com. Contact me, and we can set something up over Skype or whatever would work for you.
Troy
Serveto (Montri la profilon) 2019-marto-22 06:27:18
Yes, there are male-oriented base forms whose female counterpart is formed by adding -ino...so what? It's a very effective vocabulary mechanism that GREATLY decreases the need for learning dozens of new words. People have truly had a charmed life if they can actually read some form of second-hand treatment for females into a word building device---and that's all it takes to offend them. They could just as easily read something positive into the situation--that a special suffix was reserved just to indicate female noun forms.
As for being Euro-centric--yes, as a matter of fact, the vocabulary, at least, IS Euro-centric. It gives people who speak non-Western languages the opportunity to acquire a Western language experience. That way, if they go on to attempt to acquire another Western language, they'll have that experience as well as cognates to give them a head start.
amigueo (Montri la profilon) 2019-marto-30 20:17:45
Serveto (Montri la profilon) 2019-marto-31 01:57:27
Metsis (Montri la profilon) 2019-aprilo-01 07:03:02
Serveto:Actually the alleged need for learning dozens of new words isn't there. There are very few uses of -in at least, when it comes to humans and everyday modern life. Mostly just a couple of family members,
Yes, there are male-oriented base forms whose female counterpart is formed by adding -ino...so what? It's a very effective vocabulary mechanism that GREATLY decreases the need for learning dozens of new words.
amigueo (Montri la profilon) 2020-septembro-03 11:44:36
Serveto:I'm intensely curious, Amigueo---what do you find annoying about the passive voice? Also, I'm particularly mystified about what you find to be "sexist" with the passive voice---the passive voice seems totally unrelated to gender. What am I missing?Subtile link between gender and active/passive voice? Traditionally, there is a link, perhaps imaginary. active/masculine = passive/femenine.
novatago (Montri la profilon) 2020-septembro-03 14:43:22
Altebrilas (Montri la profilon) 2020-septembro-03 17:06:09
morico: I read English, sed, kiel minimume 80% de la ne naskiĝ'parolantoj de la angla en la mondo, mi parolas "Glob'bad'english", do mi preferas skribi en Esperanto.Mi ekhavis inspiron: Kial ne uzi la sufikson "ang" por la viroj? Oni solvus samtempe la du problemojn. Killing two birds with one stone.
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Por la "sufikso" -in, oni povas rimarki ke tio estas la finaĵo por reĝ'ino en multe tre parolataj lingvoj: queen (kŭ'in) en la angla, reĝ'ina (latina kaj itala), ra'inha (portugala), re'ina (hispana), re'ine (fr), könig'in (germana), tsar'in (rusa). La ina principo en la olda ĉina filosofio de Konfuceo estas yin. La plimulto de la homaro konas jam la "subfikson" in', kiu estas reale memstara vorto kiel ĉiuj "afiksoj".
(legi la 11-an regulon de la Fundamenta gramatiko, la 16 reguloj).
Kelkaj ŝanĝoj povas havi avantaĝojn, sed ili povas ankaŭ havi mal'avantaĝojn. Ĉiu lingvo havas sian koher'econ
Frano (Montri la profilon) 2020-septembro-04 16:38:26
Altebrilas:Mi ekhavis inspiron: Kial ne uzi la sufikson "ang" por la viroj? Oni solvus samtempe la du problemojn. Killing two birds with one stone.Cetere ĝi ankaŭ lumigus la originon de la vorto "angino".
Edveno (Montri la profilon) 2020-oktobro-04 08:16:23
1. All roots are gender neutral, with the exception of viro (man) and vajbo (woman, from German Weib, which note that back then would not have been as derogatory as it is today, German speakers). Homo of course still exists for gender-neutral "person". This would get rid of some roots as well, no need for "knab-" when it is just the masculine version of "infan-"
2. There is no gendered 3sg pronoun; li functions like hän in Finnish (remember that in the universe where I "guided" Zamenhof, an Esperanto where li means "he" only never existed, so don't call me sexist for preferring li, which could stand easily for both Latin ille "he" and illa "she", to ŝi which is a transparent borrowing of English she, as the neutral pronoun in hypothetical Edvenosperanto)
3. The most neutral usage of a word would be the gender neutral form. If it was absolutely imperative that it be known that your driver was a man or woman, vir(o)- or vajb(o)- could be attached (virŝoforo, vajbŝoforo). Similar to -in- and -iĉ- but since we're reinventing the language we don't have to use the ugly suffix -iĉ-!
And presto, Esperanto would be gender neutral. To our actual-Esperanto attuned ears, the idea of saying virinfanoj kaj vajbinfanoj instead of knaboj kaj knabinoj does seem a little strange, but of course we wouldn't question it, if that were the Esperanto we had learned.
Minor edit: apparently he in Latin is "ille" and not "illus" oops