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Costume Party with a Wild West Theme?

ya jkph00, 9 Novemba 2013

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jkph00 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Novemba 2013 9:52:47 alasiri

Okay, I'm trying out what I'm learning about compounded words. I wish to express, "This evening is the costume party with a Wild West theme." How's this? Ĉi-vespere estos la kostum-festo kun sovaĝ-okcidenta temo. (Or would I perhaps use de instead?)

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RiotNrrd (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Novemba 2013 10:48:10 alasiri

festo

Feto is something else entirely.

Other than that minor, and even kind of weirdly funny, detail, that's more or less how I'd write the sentence. I'd actually drop the hyphens everywhere except ĉi-vespere (kostumfesto, sovaĝokcidenta), but that's a stylistic choice on my part - your way is not wrong, nor is my way necessarily preferable.

erinja (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 10 Novemba 2013 11:40:26 asubuhi

I'd translate wild West as vakera - cowboy. I am not sure por sovaĝa okcidenta really translates well if someone doesn't know the English expression.

jkph00 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 10 Novemba 2013 1:06:28 alasiri

RiotNrrd: festo

Feto is something else entirely.

Other than that minor, and even kind of weirdly funny, detail, that's more or less how I'd write the sentence. I'd actually drop the hyphens everywhere except ĉi-vespere (kostumfesto, sovaĝokcidenta), but that's a stylistic choice on my part - your way is not wrong, nor is my way necessarily preferable.
Ah, the wonderful effect of an "s" left out. ridulo.gif Thanks for noting that. I corrected it. Erinja's suggestion of using vakera to describe the theme certainly makes sense, too. This language is so much fun!

sudanglo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 10 Novemba 2013 1:59:12 alasiri

How about frontiera temo? How do other languages name Westerns?

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