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Sprache: English
yyaann (Profil anzeigen) 11. Juli 2015 11:32:47
sudanglo:quite often the term in English will be created by two (or more) words rather than a single word - book shop (librovendejo); bus stop (bushaltejo); dining car (manĝvagono); dining car attendant (manĝvagonisto).That one difference is more graphical than anything though because you could very well argue that book shop and dining car are just single words with a space in between their compounds. In fact they are treated as such in the Cambridge dictionary.
Christa627 (Profil anzeigen) 13. Juli 2015 13:05:57
orthohawk:Or "forfikulo" - an earwig, not a "for-fik-ul-o"! Another amusing false entomology, I mean, etymology.erinja:except for the odd word that can parse in more than one way, or that is a root that looks like a combination of root and suffix. (fekulo. Starch, obviously!Oh, dear.......that one's rather.....awkwardfekul/o)
As you see, Esperanto isn't syntactically unambiguous; developing one that is could believably take longer (pardon my off-topic reference to an off-topic in another thread).
Christa627 (Profil anzeigen) 13. Juli 2015 13:16:08
VocabGuy:Oh, it is freeing, believe me! Incredibly so. And whenever I speak English, I really miss this word-building capability...
DuckFiasco:I find the word-building to be very freeing in spontaneous expression. And because you're using existing roots and elements, your "new" word will likely be understood with ease.I guess it's just something that I will have to get used to. It seems so unusual to me that I haven't thought of it as "freeing" yet. That's a good way to look at it though!
Although "maldekstramanulino" still strikes me as a little much!
DuckFiasco (Profil anzeigen) 13. Juli 2015 16:16:51
Christa627:Or "forfikulo" - an earwig, not a "for-fik-ul-o"! Another amusing false entomology, I mean, etymology.Wowee! Nearly a decade with Esperanto and I hadn't come across that one. It might actually be easy to remember if someone really doesn't like earwigs... I don't think they're that bad, personally
It looks like it's just a straight borrowing from the Latin family Forficula. That's how a lot of botany/insect words get into Eo.
erinja (Profil anzeigen) 13. Juli 2015 20:04:59