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goli (Näita profiili) 15. veebruar 2012 18:54.37
lgg wants to speak up his 'pf' and 'pah' everywhere, ha-ha. Maybe, he just has no girlfriend or struggles other problems, so he wants to give his feelings a way, to express his frustration with such subjective, prejudiced and biased exclamations. Or he's just anti-esperantist troll.
P.S. Sorry if my English is bad somehow.
darkweasel (Näita profiili) 15. veebruar 2012 19:14.12
goli:Or he's just anti-esperantist troll.Wait, you’re saying there’s another option than this one?
As for saying "cool" in Esperanto, there’s mojosa and malaĉa - search the forum for these two words to find previous discussions on that.
goli (Näita profiili) 15. veebruar 2012 19:59.11
darkweasel:I first misread 'option' as 'opinion'. My absent-mindedness is my trouble.goli:The option I quoted.Wait, you’re saying there’s another option than this one?darkweasel, I haven't understood you. What is 'this one'?
sudanglo (Näita profiili) 15. veebruar 2012 22:57.02
The word is fairly vague in English and slangy.
An online dictionary entry I found gives the following account:
very fashionable, stylish, or appealing in a way that is generally approved of especially by young people;
often used to show approval in a general way ;
used to suggest acceptance, agreement, or understanding
Mojosa, which is also slangy, can be used for the first of these meanings.
The original post in this thread was about how to improve the image of Esperanto in the mind of the general public - kiel fari ĝin pli laŭmoda.
erinja (Näita profiili) 16. veebruar 2012 19:59.26
Fenris_kcf:Now Igg is away... Did he/she left on his/her own or was he/she banned?He was banned for trolling.
I suggest that you not try to reason with trolls or respond to their messages. It wastes your effort, the troll will never listen or care, and it carries the forum thread further off-topic.
I'm going to delete the off-topic messages from this thread.
komenstanto (Näita profiili) 18. veebruar 2012 1:37.43
erinja:The problem with Esperanto is that it requires effort, and people are flakes.I am American and foreign languages dont bother me. I often even think of a German expression before an English one, such as "zehr kalt".
If a new shoe, CD, or movie becomes trendy, anyone with enough money can simply go out and buy it. You can't buy Esperanto; you have to make a commitment of time and effort, even though it's less time and effort than you'd spend on another language. People are flaky. Persuading someone to learn a new language, even a language much easier than whatever they may have studied in school, isn't an easy task.
It's hard enough to persuade Americans even of the idea that studying ANY foreign language is beneficial, let alone this particular language, which has few speakers and they probably have never heard of.
Anyway, as Kabe said, Esperantists have to learn Esperanto first. Anyone who wants to spread Esperanto should take a close look at his or her own language level. It does no good to go around advertising "the easy international language that everyone should learn" if you can barely say "saluton" yourself.
The real issue with Americans is that they are the descendants of often lower-class immigrants, and anything that smacks of European elitism will throw them off.
Though I should say that Americans are not incapable of grasping Esperanto, but in some ways learning Esperanto is tantamount to Loyalism, and we specifically tossed the tea from Europe in the harbor already.
Since this is European motivated, and very French, you will have to think of some very subtle cognitive behavioral therapy to go along with the Esperanto package.
komenstanto (Näita profiili) 18. veebruar 2012 1:50.22