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Alkanadi (Profil anzeigen) 11. Mai 2015 14:09:05
gianich73 (Profil anzeigen) 11. Mai 2015 14:38:36
Alkanadi:Have you ever used Esperanto to talk with your friends so that others won't understand you? Maybe, you were talking about personal topics and you didn't want people around you to understand?Never. Unfortunately, my friends do not speak Esperanto and I myself am not that fluent either.
robbkvasnak (Profil anzeigen) 11. Mai 2015 15:39:25
Tempodivalse (Profil anzeigen) 11. Mai 2015 16:45:50
Alkanadi:Have you ever used Esperanto to talk with your friends so that others won't understand you? Maybe, you were talking about personal topics and you didn't want people around you to understand?I write my personal diary in Esperanto. A bit of safety, perhaps, should someone accidentally come across it. A polyglot well-versed in Indo-European languages would probably be able to guess the gist of it, but to the average person, it's not very intelligible.
If I were *really* paranoid, I'd use Volapuk - but I don't have nearly the amount of time needed to learn it to a level where I can just write freely and uninhibitedly. And Esperanto is more fun anyway.
AlphaBrewer (Profil anzeigen) 11. Mai 2015 18:08:34
Alkanadi:Have you ever used Esperanto to talk with your friends so that others won't understand you? Maybe, you were talking about personal topics and you didn't want people around you to understand?I find this idea hilarious. I would, if my friends or loved ones knew Esperanto.
Christa627 (Profil anzeigen) 12. Mai 2015 00:54:06
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jdawdy (Profil anzeigen) 12. Mai 2015 01:41:54
Alkanadi:Have you ever used Esperanto to talk with your friends so that others won't understand you? Maybe, you were talking about personal topics and you didn't want people around you to understand?Time for a cautionary tale:
My wife (Russian-speaking Kazakh) and I were in Las Vegas taking a taxi. We were sitting in back chatting in Russian as the driver- a guy with a Spanish accent, who I assumed was from Mexico- took us to our destination. We dropped my wife off and I asked him to take me to the hotel. At that point he says, "Your wife is Russian?" and I said, "She's from Kazakhstan". He replies, "Oh, Almaty. I've been there."
I asked him, "What were you doing?" and he said, "I was a student" and proceeded, in perfect Russian, to say "at the Saint Petersburg Financial-Economics Institute". He was from Cuba, and had studied in the Soviet Union.
So, of course, he understood everything we said. Moral of the story: the people you might least expect to understand your "secret language" can surprise you!
grand_dan (Profil anzeigen) 12. Mai 2015 01:57:31
Alkanadi (Profil anzeigen) 12. Mai 2015 08:21:11
jdawdy:Interesting story. I will keep that in mind.
Time for a cautionary tale:
...He was from Cuba, and had studied in the Soviet Union.
So, of course, he understood everything we said. Moral of the story: the people you might least expect to understand your "secret language" can surprise you!
Tim Doner (the famous polyglot) was in a taxi and he heard the taxi driver speaking Wolof. The taxi driver was shocked when Tim talked to him in his own language.
I guess we have to be careful.
johmue (Profil anzeigen) 12. Mai 2015 13:40:11
Alkanadi:Have you ever used Esperanto to talk with your friends so that others won't understand you? Maybe, you were talking about personal topics and you didn't want people around you to understand?I am doing that all the time. Mostly we are speaking Esperanto not for this very purpose, but because it's our usual language. Yet we use the fact that people around don't understand us to talk about things we probably wouldn't talk about in public.
I also regularly use Esperanto to pretend that I don't speak neither the local language nor English. For example when mormons or someone like that approach me.
What I don't do and recommend not to do is use Esperanto to exclude a particular person or a particular group from a part of the conversation.