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Esperanto "Maneuver Enemy" Manuals

貼文者: eojeff, 2012年7月5日

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eojeff (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月5日下午11:57:02

From the 1950s until the 1970s the US Army had manuals on the Esperanto language. I think some manuals were also translated INTO Esperanto as well. These manuals depicted a fictional (and vaguely communist) "Maneuver Enemy", or "Aggressor Forces." I've seen PDFs on the web of different quality levels here and there. It looks like some of them went through various revisions and updates. I've never seen a complete list of all such manuals. I suspect, counting revisions, there were quite a few such manuals and documents produced.

Being something of a history nerd, I'd love to get my hands on copies of these manuals if I could. Do any of you know where a complete list of these manuals and/or page scans thereof can be found?

Dankon!

Vespero_ (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日上午4:15:01

This sounds really, really cool! Can you link to any of the PDFs you've found?

mschmitt (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日上午6:31:06

Vespero_ (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日下午2:48:37

mschmitt:For those who have never heard of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ2ei7e6aAs
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/docrepositor...
http://www.alternatewars.com/WW3/Trigons/FM30_102_...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/44434597/1962-Esperanto-...
Thanks! Looking through them, I notice some humorous mistakes, though. The second link mixes up "u" and "ŭ" during vowel delineation. One thing that confuses me, though, is that the second link gives the pronunciation of "v" as "v — v — like the w in wilt or coward." It also lists the Personal Pronouns, but does not define them (which probably wouldn't be a huge deal without "Si" )

The last link mixes "c" up with "ĉ" for the purposes of "ĉu" and also lists "v" as being a /w/ sound. Maybe I'm missing something?

Lauro_Edvardo (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日下午3:26:05

eojeff (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日下午6:40:48

This site has some more "Aggressor" manuals: http://www.alternatewars.com/WW3/Trigons/Trigons.h.... It even has a running, but probably not complete, bibliography.

So, that's more of them. Just not all of them. Progress. ridulo.gif

mschmitt (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日下午7:58:42

Lauro_Edvardo:The last link is also available as a free download from Google Books in PDF form:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Esperanto_the_...
Yep. Found that too, when I saw that Scribd have begun to charge for downloads. What a friponaĵo.

Vespero_:Maybe I'm missing something?
Check the video for an additional hint as to how diligently they tried to get their Esperanto right, in terms of grammar and pronounciation. There's the speech in front of the troops at 00:45 and the interrogation at 03:00. ridulo.gif

Vespero_ (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月6日下午9:30:51

mschmitt:
Vespero_:Maybe I'm missing something?
Check the video for an additional hint as to how diligently they tried to get their Esperanto right, in terms of grammar and pronounciation. There's the speech in front of the troops at 00:45 and the interrogation at 03:00. ridulo.gif
Ho ve...

erinja (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月7日上午3:45:45

I have a paper copy of one of those manuals. Bought it from an Esperanto charity auction, paid more than it was worth since I knew it was for a good cause. It was donated by another local Esperanto speaker, not totally sure where he originally got it from.

There are some strange small errors in it and some of the military terms are translated in a way that I wouldn't necessarily have picked, but it's quite interesting anyway.

eojeff (顯示個人資料) 2012年7月9日下午1:07:27

As others have noted, some of the military terms picked by the authors of these documents perhaps aren't the best. This makes me wonder if there is a good dictionary of modern military terms in Esperanto.

Any ideas?

A quick run through my dictionary (Wells 2010) shows words like "aircraft carrier" and such. But I don't see military technology words like "point defense." I haven't checked for unit terms like "platoon" or "fire team."

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