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by orthohawk, May 27, 2014

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orthohawk (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 2:59:21 AM

A facebook post by Phil Dorcas gave me an idea for a marketing slogan:

"Do an end run around the NSA; use Esperanto!"

Rejsi (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 3:15:15 AM

orthohawk:A facebook post by Phil Dorcas gave me an idea for a marketing slogan:

"Do an end run around the NSA; use Esperanto!"
As a native English speaker, I'm baffled. What do you intend this to mean?

orthohawk (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 4:11:16 AM

Rejsi:
orthohawk:A facebook post by Phil Dorcas gave me an idea for a marketing slogan:

"Do an end run around the NSA; use Esperanto!"
As a native English speaker, I'm baffled. What do you intend this to mean?
Haven't you been watching the news? TheNSA is under fire for spying on US citizens: emails, phone calls, etc.

Rejsi (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 4:29:16 AM

orthohawk:
Rejsi:
orthohawk:A facebook post by Phil Dorcas gave me an idea for a marketing slogan:

"Do an end run around the NSA; use Esperanto!"
As a native English speaker, I'm baffled. What do you intend this to mean?
Haven't you been watching the news? TheNSA is under fire for spying on US citizens: emails, phone calls, etc.
But what in the world does "do an end run around the" mean?

Fenris_kcf (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 5:10:45 AM

orthohawk:Haven't you been watching the news? TheNSA is under fire for spying on US citizens: emails, phone calls, etc.
Hmm, this looks like either you don't know or don't care that the NSA is spying everyone, not only US-citizens. Hope i'm wrong.

Rejsi (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 5:15:05 AM

Fenris_kcf:
orthohawk:Haven't you been watching the news? TheNSA is under fire for spying on US citizens: emails, phone calls, etc.
Hmm, this looks like either you don't know or don't care that the NSA is spying everyone, not only US-citizens. Hope i'm wrong.
But presumably they won't think to spy in Esperanto.

glaciurso (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 5:51:56 AM

Rejsi:
But what in the world does "do an end run around the" mean?
It's a football term meaning an attempt to avoid direct confrontation.
I used to watch a lot of American football games... however not being a native I found the explanation on Wiki ridulo.gif

Rejsi (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 6:45:13 AM

glaciurso:
Rejsi:
But what in the world does "do an end run around the" mean?
It's a football term meaning an attempt to avoid direct confrontation.
I used to watch a lot of American football games... however not being a native I found the explanation on Wiki ridulo.gif
Ahaha that explains it! I don't watch many football games. ridulo.gif

orthohawk (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 6:52:02 AM

Fenris_kcf:
orthohawk:Haven't you been watching the news? TheNSA is under fire for spying on US citizens: emails, phone calls, etc.
Hmm, this looks like either you don't know or don't care that the NSA is spying everyone, not only US-citizens. Hope i'm wrong.
No, I don't care that they spy on non-usonanoj. That's what they're there for.

noelekim (User's profile) May 27, 2014, 7:32:50 AM

orthohawk:A facebook post by Phil Dorcas gave me an idea for a marketing slogan:

"Do an end run around the NSA; use Esperanto!"
For "do an end run around" I would say "ĉirkaŭevitu", literally "avoid by going around", dodge.

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