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Alkanadi (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 16.51.50
robbkvasnak (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 17.13.15
erinja (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 17.48.14
Mine is somewhere in between. It's a big part of my life and if I have kids I will speak to them in Esperanto, because this is a way to include them in a significant portion of my life. But I don't feel like Esperanto is really a hobby, any more than being Jewish is a "hobby". I have my Jewish friends and my Esperanto friends, my Jewish books and my Esperanto books. It is simply incorporated as a part of my life that informs some of my activities and what I do with some of my free time.
Tempodivalse (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 18.06.19
jefusan (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 19.53.33
Compare that to improv comedy, which I'm sure some friends and family members think of as my hobby. But I met my wife at an improv theater, the majority of my friends and acquaintances are comedians, and I have been paid handsomely to perform. Improv is a huge part of my life. Esperanto, like crossword puzzles, is rewarding in a less practical, more private way.
erinja (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 19.57.11
Language learning - sure, a hobby. But once you already speak it to a decent degree, it's not so much a hobby as a thing you use to do your other hobbies. Reading is a hobby, and an Esperanto speaker who enjoys reading could read Esperanto books. Internet chatting is a hobby, you could do that in Esperanto too. Like crocheting? You could crochet something and then discuss it with your Esperanto friends on an Esperanto group for crochet hobbyists. But a language as a hobby, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
"Doing Esperanto" looks a lot like "doing" any other thing I do in my life, only in a different language (reading, chatting online, meeting friends, tourism, etc).
jefusan (Näytä profiilli) 4. marraskuuta 2015 20.41.36
erinja:It's just hard for me to conceive of a language as being a hobby once you have finished learning it.In my case, I'm not that close to being finished. And as it hasn't become part of my day-to-day life in any way, it can't be much more than a hobby.
Language learning - sure, a hobby. But once you already speak it to a decent degree, it's not so much a hobby as a thing you use to do your other hobbies. Reading is a hobby, and an Esperanto speaker who enjoys reading could read Esperanto books. Internet chatting is a hobby, you could do that in Esperanto too. Like crocheting? You could crochet something and then discuss it with your Esperanto friends on an Esperanto group for crochet hobbyists. But a language as a hobby, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
"Doing Esperanto" looks a lot like "doing" any other thing I do in my life, only in a different language (reading, chatting online, meeting friends, tourism, etc).
Alkanadi (Näytä profiilli) 5. marraskuuta 2015 7.03.43
erinja:But I don't feel like Esperanto is really a hobby, any more than being Jewish is a "hobby".Interesting point. So it is part of your identity.
johmue (Näytä profiilli) 5. marraskuuta 2015 7.17.48
Alkanadi:I would definetly say it's part of my identity. I wouldn't say Esperanto is a hobby to me. It's more like a cultural background. It's very much like Erinja says.erinja:But I don't feel like Esperanto is really a hobby, any more than being Jewish is a "hobby".Interesting point. So it is part of your identity.
My hobbies are music, podcasting, programming, electronics, typesetting, traveling, ...
Many of those I am doing inside the Esperanto community. I also speak Esperanto with my girlfriends. So it's really a part of my identity so definetely not just a hobby but it's far from being "everything". There's my friends, my beloved ones, there is my hobbies, there's my job.
sudanglo (Näytä profiilli) 5. marraskuuta 2015 10.49.09
I really had to stop and think whether I could say that Esperanto was one of my hobbies.
I suppose that a denaska Esperanto-speaker would have some difficulty in saying that for him or her Esperanto was a hobby, just as an Englishman wouldn't say that English was a hobby.