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Esperanto in the News: Huffington Post

de Alkanadi, 24 mars 2016

Messages : 6

Langue: English

Alkanadi (Voir le profil) 24 mars 2016 06:49:08

"When Ludwik Zamenhof created Esperanto in the 19th century, the idea was to have a language that would help foster the conditions for world peace."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-weir/the...

Vestitor (Voir le profil) 24 mars 2016 11:08:07

It's an article listing management speak, but okay.

Alkanadi (Voir le profil) 24 mars 2016 15:28:38

Vestitor:It's article listing management speak, but okay.
It seems like a plug for Esperanto, which doesn't have much to do with the subject matter. It is still cool to get the exposure though.

Vestitor (Voir le profil) 24 mars 2016 18:55:16

Out of interest I think the term 'bite the bullet' (in the article) comes from duelling with pistols where the seconds would bite the shot to test if it was real.

FoxtrotUniform (Voir le profil) 24 mars 2016 20:41:25

Vestitor:Out of interest I think the term 'bite the bullet' (in the article) comes from duelling with pistols where the seconds would bite the shot to test if it was real.[/quot]

I'm thinking "bite the bullet" comes from the practice of biting down on something hard to deal with the pain of pre-antasetic surgeries as a way to deal with the pain

It may be thaat all of the above are folk etymologies.

mkj1887 (Voir le profil) 17 mai 2016 15:17:29

I have added Esperanto translations of the ‘management speak’ items.

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