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Esperanto at its most difficult

door Bruso, 4 november 2013

Berichten: 9

Taal: English

Bruso (Profiel tonen) 4 november 2013 14:30:27

On Lernu, requests are often made for easy reading material for beginners.

However, I was wondering if there are any Esperanto writings known for their difficulty, even for experienced, advanced Esperantists.

My guess (I could be wrong) would be that this would be Esperanto written in a grammatically correct but non-intuitive manner - non-intuitive to speakers of Western languages and maybe natural languages in general. Non-obvious word-formations, turning prepositions into verbs, unusual (but logical) word-order, sentences that look ambiguous or convoluted unless completely analyzed, etc.

Is there anything like that? Even famous for being like that?

Hantek (Profiel tonen) 4 november 2013 14:59:48

I do not know, but I get very tempted to make one myself haha. Sounds like a good exercise to make esperanto short stories of that kind.
I wonder if there are any translations of anything of Kafka; I think his writing style is quite complex. Lewis Carroll is weird too but not in way you are looking for, I think. Are you specifically thinking of original works?

Bruso (Profiel tonen) 4 november 2013 15:06:50

Hantek:Are you specifically thinking of original works?
Primarily, I was, but if there's a translation like this it would be interesting, too.

erinja (Profiel tonen) 4 november 2013 16:50:58

Most Esperanto authors try to write in a relatively clear way.

You will generally find the most 'difficult' language in poetry. I suggest reading La Infana Raso, by Auld. Each section of it has a completely different style, and one of them has intentionally misspelled words (providing dual meanings, if you can work out which are the two or more alternate 'correct' forms of the defective word!). You will almost certainly learn some vocabulary.

sudanglo (Profiel tonen) 5 november 2013 11:07:19

Try any writing from a lingvistikisto. They tend to be very comfortable with obfuscation.

Belmiro (Profiel tonen) 5 november 2013 11:55:16

I suggest reading www.liberafolio.org

There always are a number of people who thinks writes well but they do not make themselves understood.

Belmiro

Bruso (Profiel tonen) 6 november 2013 01:44:23

sudanglo:Try any writing from a lingvistikisto. They tend to be very comfortable with obfuscation.
Hmmm. What or who are lingvistikistoj? (Two -ist suffixes in one word if I'm parsing it correctly. Linguisticists?)

Ondo (Profiel tonen) 6 november 2013 08:18:43

Bruso:Is there anything like that? Even famous for being like that?
Try La Litomiŝla tombejo by Karolo Piĉ. I quote from Osmo Buller: "ĝi prezentas nenion originalan, nur novan veston ĉirkaŭ malnovo. [...] Sed tiun malnovon ĝi kondukas ĝis absurdo. La lingvajn principojn de la Fundamento ĝi kondukas ĝis rande de abismo."

Probal Dasgupta is quite good, too.

Kirilo81 (Profiel tonen) 6 november 2013 09:17:24

Bruso:Hmmm. What or who are lingvistikistoj? (Two -ist suffixes in one word if I'm parsing it correctly. Linguisticists?)
lingvistik' + ist' - but lingvistoj would do the job, too (and even better; I think Sudanglo especially used this unusual word for his antipathy to linguists okulumo.gif).

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