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Frakseno (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 17 03:39:03
erinja (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 17 13:24:20
mnlg (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 17 14:44:02
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guyjohnston (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 17 20:11:30
Frakseno (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 17 22:04:56
guyjohnston:How does 'Soros' come from Esperanto?This is what I have read in a couple of places. Perhaps it's incorrect?
After Schwartz escaped from the prison camp and returned to Budapest, he founded an Esperanto journal. He taught his son Esperanto from the time he was a baby. When the nazis invaded, Teodoro sent 13 year-old George to stay with a non-Jewish family. To be safe, Schwartz also changed the family name from Schwartz to Soros. In Hungarian “soros” means “next in line, or designated successor”, while in Esperanto it means “will soar.” Soros was with his father in 1947 at an Esperanto conference in Switzerland. It was at this conference that George took the opportunity to leave Hungary.http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=154
trojo (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 18 18:03:25
As for other famous people with Esperanto names, the only other one I can think of is Anjo Amika, but I don't know if that's her actual legal name or just a stage name. I'm guessing just a stage name.
guyjohnston (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 18 18:08:33
eb.eric (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 18 18:11:37
erinja (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 19 01:33:30
eb.eric:I think the inventor of Toki Pona's legal name is Sonja Kisa.Sonja did choose this last name, but it wasn't because of its Esperanto meaning. Her last name was previously Richard (pronounced the French way) and she was tired of people pronouncing it like "Richard" (English style), so she changed her name to a loose variation on the sound of the name, a variation that people all over the world would be able to pronounce easily.
alexbeard (Å vise profilen) 2008 7 19 16:13:55