Learning Idioms in Esperanto
Nala_Cat15,2019年2月17日の
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Nala_Cat15 (プロフィールを表示) 2019年2月17日 3:25:26
How did you learn idioms in Esperanto? because I can't find many examples on the internet.
Are idioms a common occurrence in Esperanto, or Is everything mostly literal?
Dankon
sergejm (プロフィールを表示) 2019年2月17日 7:10:20
Nala_Cat15 (プロフィールを表示) 2019年2月17日 17:58:01
sergejm (プロフィールを表示) 2019年2月17日 19:00:40
Nala_Cat15 (プロフィールを表示) 2019年6月18日 20:40:13
bryku (プロフィールを表示) 2019年6月18日 23:15:06
sergejm (プロフィールを表示) 2019年6月19日 3:42:28
Nala_Cat15:There isn't really a "special dictionary of idioms" that I can find. I don't think a dictionary specific to idioms exists in esperanto.Someone need to make it. Do you?
Some common dictionaries contain some of them, but not many.
bryku:You do not need any idioms in Esperanto the way you need them in English - you can express everything regularly.Do you want idioms in Esperanto or don't, they exists.
Oni nomas ilin "idiotismoj".
Metsis (プロフィールを表示) 2019年6月19日 7:37:02
bryku:You do not need any idioms in Esperanto the way you need them in English - you can express everything regularly.Well "regularly" is relative. E-o has its own irregularities and peculiarities (accusative used as partitive, accusative in time expressions, several ways to express translative, absolute time expressions with antaŭ and post to name a couple), albeit perhaps less than other human languages, but it's not completely logical and regular (as has been touted ad nauceam).
For instance for me the following idioms are hard:
• unu la alian : from where does the article jump into the expression?
• kiel eble plej… : in my native language the construction is English-like as… as possible, i.e. the adverb comes before the "possibility" and not the other way round.
sergejm (プロフィールを表示) 2019年6月19日 17:54:47
wswartzendruber (プロフィールを表示) 2019年6月20日 16:59:50
Wouldn't idioms make it more difficult to communicate across cultures? It seems to me that this language has been carefully calculated to avoid such issues.