Words missing across the board: ‘semelparous’, ‘semelparity’, ‘iteroparous’, and ‘iteroparity’
fra mkj1887,2017 5 4
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Språk: English
mkj1887 (Å vise profilen) 2017 5 4 01:47:35
No biggie, but just a missed opportunity for Esperanto lexicography to shine.
edit 6.May.2017:
“Por fariĝi “vera lingvo”, Esperanto devas esti uzata en ĉiuj fakoj.”
-- Gilbert R. Ledon
(parafrazo el p.7, de lia libro KONTRUU VIAN DOMON)
bartlett22183 (Å vise profilen) 2017 5 5 18:20:28
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Sometimes I think we get bogged down in unnecessary technicalities, when the fundamental task is to get an international auxiliary language such as Esperanto more widely accepted and used in the first place. Get E-o accepted to begin with, and then worry about esotericisms that might apply to a fraction of a percent of potential users.
mkj1887 (Å vise profilen) 2017 5 6 00:44:08
bartlett22183:I am no expert and do not claim to be. I will cheerfully accept correction from those who know better.You take the high road. I'll take the low road.However, I myself suppose that highly technical words such as those you refer to -- I myself, as a university educated native speaker of English, have never encounter any of them! -- would probably be covered under Rule 15 of the basic principles of Esperanto. I presume that in many languages, such profoundly esoteric terms would be assimilated as localized forms from Greco-Latin roots, and that the same would apply therefore to Esperanto as internationalized forms. (And Rule 15 refers to preferably deriving terms from basic roots.)
Sometimes I think we get bogged down in unnecessary technicalities, when the fundamental task is to get an international auxiliary language such as Esperanto more widely accepted and used in the first place. Get E-o accepted to begin with, and then worry about esotericisms that might apply to a fraction of a percent of potential users.
Vestitor (Å vise profilen) 2017 5 6 01:14:44
mkj1887 (Å vise profilen) 2017 5 6 02:11:54
Vestitor:Well, with the 'low road' being that road taken by the fairies (Celtic mythology) it might be quite apt.And which road do the trolls take?
Vestitor (Å vise profilen) 2017 5 6 09:24:58
mkj1887:You tell me. What's the name for someone who posts spurious 'problems' and is rude and defensive to those (from that extremely small number) who do respond, but fail to say: "yes, you're absolutely right"?Vestitor:Well, with the 'low road' being that road taken by the fairies (Celtic mythology) it might be quite apt.And which road do the trolls take?
It's unnecessary.