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Kiu ĉi mi?

ya jkph00, 12 Julai 2013

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jkph00 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 12 Julai 2013 7:50:26 alasiri

The Internet bookstore for FEL sent me notice of a book just released. I can't figure out what the title means. How would one translate, "Kiu ĉi mi?" :-|

Thanks!

Tempodivalse (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 12 Julai 2013 10:59:38 alasiri

jkph00:The Internet bookstore for FEL sent me notice of a book just released. I can't figure out what the title means. How would one translate, "Kiu ĉi mi?" :-|

Thanks!
Perhaps there was a typo? I've never seen ĉi used in this manner, it makes no obvious sense. Kiu ĉe mi, maybe?

noelekim (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Julai 2013 4:24:07 asubuhi

Tempodivalse:
jkph00:The Internet bookstore for FEL sent me notice of a book just released. I can't figure out what the title means. How would one translate, "Kiu ĉi mi?" :-|

Thanks!
Perhaps there was a typo? I've never seen ĉi used in this manner, it makes no obvious sense. Kiu ĉe mi, maybe?
There's no mistake. That's exactly the title of Gerrit Berveling's latest autobiography: http://www.esperanto.be/fel/but/lib/kiucx.php

I supose you could translate it as Who is this "I"?, or in plain Esperanto, Kiu mi estas?

Tempodivalse (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Julai 2013 4:31:17 asubuhi

noelekim:
Tempodivalse:
jkph00:The Internet bookstore for FEL sent me notice of a book just released. I can't figure out what the title means. How would one translate, "Kiu ĉi mi?" :-|

Thanks!
Perhaps there was a typo? I've never seen ĉi used in this manner, it makes no obvious sense. Kiu ĉe mi, maybe?
There's no mistake. That's exactly the title of Gerrit Berveling's latest autobiography: http://www.esperanto.be/fel/but/lib/kiucx.php

I supose you could translate it as Who is this "I"?, or in plain Esperanto, Kiu mi estas?
That's the only explanation I can think of. In any case this is highly non-standard usage. At best, it's ambiguous in the same way that Tie ĉi tiu viro lin renkontis is ambiguous. To which word does ĉi belong to?

Here it is doubly confusing, because neither pronouns nor interrogative correlatives like kiu usually permit of ĉi. And there is no verb, to make matters worse.

sandreus (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Julai 2013 5:42:58 asubuhi

Mi opinias, ke la intenca nekorekta utileco de Esperanto por la reklamceloj estas malmalareco. Kaj tiun, kiu faras ĉi tion estas noculo.

sudanglo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Julai 2013 10:01:45 asubuhi

The title is impenetrable. Some punctuation might make it clearer, but I suspect not. Probably another case of Esperanto publishing without professional editing.

Rugxdoma (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Julai 2013 1:50:27 alasiri

Licentia poetica is generally tolerated in national languages, and is widely used in Esperanto poetry. Perhaps Esperanto poets should avoid it, in order not to discourage the potential readers. Or, is it the other way, that such a thing, as in a title here, makes the public more curious about the content?

tommjames (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Julai 2013 3:19:37 alasiri

Assuming the title means what noelekim suggests, I quite like it actually. Poetic license doesn't seem like such a problem in a book's title, and the fact of it being an autobiography may provide a hint as to the meaning.

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