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anarchtea (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午1:18:19
I'm still on the basic courses, so hope this is the best place to ask my question without splashing my mistakes all over the Esperanto boards.
I was looking for a way to say 'dystopian', in answer to a question about my hobbies (I enjoy such literature), and the Lernu dictionary came up with nothing.
It did say that 'utopia' is 'utopio'; so, using what relatively little I know so far, would 'dystopia' be 'malutopio'? And therefore 'dystopian' be 'malutopisto'?
Many thanks!
A.
pdenisowski (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午1:54:00
anarchtea:Hello all,I would go with "malutopio". In fact, Wikipedia has an article (not written by me) in Esperanto for "Malutopio"
I'm still on the basic courses, so hope this is the best place to ask my question without splashing my mistakes all over the Esperanto boards.
I was looking for a way to say 'dystopian', in answer to a question about my hobbies (I enjoy such literature), and the Lernu dictionary came up with nothing.
It did say that 'utopia' is 'utopio'; so, using what relatively little I know so far, would 'dystopia' be 'malutopio'? And therefore 'dystopian' be 'malutopisto'?
Many thanks!
A.
http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malutopio
That one wasn't in ESPDIC but it is now
A person who is a dystopian would probably be a malutopiulo not an malutopiisto since -isto usually implies a profession. ESPDIC has :
utopia : utopian
Utopio : Utopia
utopiulo : Utopian
Hope that helps,
Paul
sudanglo (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午2:00:59
Dystopia seems to have a similar form in most of the European languages.
The obvious Esperanto form would be distopio.
From that you can generate distopi-ano, distopi-ulo, and distopi-isto.
Just choose the one that best expresses the nuance you desire.
Is a distopio really the malo of an utopio? If so, you could use malutopio. I suspect that distopio would be understood quicker.
pdenisowski (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午3:58:02
sudanglo:Under rule 15, international words can be imported into Esperanto.I doubt many English-speakers would know what a "dystopia" is, whereas most recognize the word "utopia".
Dystopia seems to have a similar form in most of the European languages.
The obvious Esperanto form would be distopio.
Is a distopio really the malo of an utopio? If so, you could use malutopio. I suspect that distopio would be understood quicker.
I would be careful about using "distopio" for "dystopia" -- dystopia also is a medical term that means faulty or incorrect placement of an organ or structure.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/dystopia
I also wouldn't say that this word is common across all or most European languages.
For example, the German cognate Dystopie is only used in this (medical) sense. The German for "dystopia" in the non-medical sense is "Schreckenswelt".
In Russian and Polish the word is Антиуто́пия and antyutopia, respectively, in which the concept is expressed with the prefix "anti-" and not "dis-" (they're not equivalent).
Malutopio is unambiguous (and also yields three times as many hits as "distopio" on Google). Note that I also have seen across "kontraŭutopio" -- pretty rare, but also unambiguous.
erinja (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午4:07:12
pdenisowski:I doubt many English-speakers would know what a "dystopia" is, whereas most recognize the word "utopia".Seriously? I think most people who are educated enough to know what a utopia is would have heard of a dystopia. At least in my part of the country.
I'm not saying that I support "distopio" over "malutopio", but I disagree that "dystopia" is some kind of rare word that people wouldn't recognize.
pdenisowski (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午4:25:55
erinja:That would be an interesting experiment : ask the next ten people you meet to define "utopia", "dystopia", and a half-dozen similar words (maybe "myopia" or even "cornucopia" and "Ethiopia").pdenisowski:I doubt many English-speakers would know what a "dystopia" is, whereas most recognize the word "utopia".Seriously? I think most people who are educated enough to know what a utopia is would have heard of a dystopia. At least in my part of the country.
Maybe it's just that "utopia" is used more often than "dystopia" (Google gives the ratio at about 11:1).
Amike,
Paul
anarchtea (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午4:48:02
I haven't come across anyone who doesn't know what a dystopia, or dystopian society, is. I suppose if "distopio" was used, rather than "malutopio", it would depend on the context as the two are unlikely to be confused. Though I'll try to not talk about it after any future operations I might have.
erinja (显示个人资料) 2012年2月10日下午5:07:01
I found both used online. Wikipedia has "malutopio" as its primary entry, whatever that counts for.