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How to best express "to shimmy" in Esp?

door robbkvasnak, 24 januari 2016

Berichten: 48

Taal: English

Vestitor (Profiel tonen) 20 juni 2016 00:49:54

Rubbish.

thyrolf (Profiel tonen) 20 juni 2016 08:18:24

robbkvasnak:He shimmied up the tree -
any suggestions?
li koksumante grimpis la arbon?

mkj1887 (Profiel tonen) 20 juni 2016 11:36:14

Vestitor:Rubbish.
You prate, and speak arrogantly, but I have rendered you nearly speechless. Has anyone matched my record?

Vestitor (Profiel tonen) 20 juni 2016 12:48:39

mkj1887:
Vestitor:Rubbish.
You prate, and speak arrogantly, but I have rendered you nearly speechless. Has anyone matched my record?
Irony perhaps?

vejktoro (Profiel tonen) 22 juni 2016 05:22:49

mkj1887:
Vestitor:Rubbish.
You prate, and speak arrogantly, but I have rendered you nearly speechless. Has anyone matched my record?
Prate is a word in my dialect I didn't know existed in the US. How do you pronounce it, and what do you mean when you say it?

vejktoro (Profiel tonen) 22 juni 2016 05:52:29

Nevermind. Googled it. Not quite the same but close. I dear say that I might declare that Vestitor got some prate on him, meaning he likes to talk, and is a rather good talker. The value judgement on the content of the prate is left to the beholder in my dialect.

I know this thread is about scampering up an old tree, but before we go back, can you tell me is your word 'prate' common, academic, or purely dictionary speak.

Miland (Profiel tonen) 22 juni 2016 07:22:55

"Prate" has been around for over a century. It occurs in the famous poem by John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant - see the last two lines of the last verse. I note that the first line of this verse uses "oft", not "always". It means talking foolishly or at boring length about something. I'm not sure whether balbuti is used much in Esperanto in this sense, or we would use something like prelegi/paroladi tede. Any opinions?

Vestitor (Profiel tonen) 22 juni 2016 10:00:05

I'd say the diminutive 'prattle' is now more common.

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