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Word of the day - Wierd

by Alkanadi, April 9, 2015

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Language: English

Alkanadi (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 6:07:42 AM

Check out the word of the day for April 9, 2015

This is the example sentence:

Esperanto: Mi elektis la malĝustan semajnan por haltas flaresplori gluo.

English: I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Aslo (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 6:18:38 AM

Brilliant! XD

As an aside: The vox/audio gave a stutter on gluo, which really drove the point home.

Matthieu (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 8:11:10 AM

Alkanadi:Esperanto: Mi elektis la malĝustan semajnan por haltas flaresplori gluo.
This sentence is definitely wrong. It should be something like "Mi elektis la malĝustan semajnon por ĉesi flari/enspiri gluon."

Alkanadi (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 8:22:10 AM

Mutusen:This sentence is definitely wrong. It should be something like "Mi elektis la malĝustan semajnon por ĉesi flari/enspiri gluon."
You are right about semajnon. I don't know about the other parts

filmo70 (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 11:39:47 AM

Ha, that line is from the movie Airplane.

Venkistido (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 12:15:47 PM

Sounds to me like the speaker is saying: Mi elektis la malĝustan semajnan por halti flaresplori gluo.

Tempodivalse (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 2:31:47 PM

"Flaresplori gluon" sounds a bit awkward. "Glusnufado" is shorter. "Haltas" is definitely wrong; it should be an infinitive (and I wonder if ĉesi isn't more appropriate, since halti usually suggests a motion, e.g. to "halt", rather than to "quit" or to "cease".)

The translator appears to have just translated all the words in to Esperanto from English directly, which doesn't always render the most natural-sounding text. Esperanto is often more flexible.

I would have said something like: Mi elektis maloportunan semajnon por ĉesigi glusnufadon.

Tempodivalse (User's profile) April 9, 2015, 10:03:36 PM

@Alkanadi, you may be interested in this thread here.

Essentially, I don't recommend that website for learning Esperanto. The quality of its content is in general abysmal.

Leke (User's profile) April 10, 2015, 7:03:37 PM

This would go well in a book/tutorial called Learn Batshit Crazy Esperanto.

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