Mesaĝoj: 93
Lingvo: English
Metsis (Montri la profilon) 2022-majo-27 08:08:42
PrimeMinisterK:Probably nothing, but Google does. It customises searches on several criteria, among those the language setting of the browser you are searching with. I bet ours are different
You say you Googled and got X number of hits. For instance, 8590 for "Dankon pro la informo." I did the same and got over 136,000 results. What are we doing different?
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PrimeMinisterK:The "problem" is that English has three verb forms ending with -ing: gerund, participle and deverbal noun.
"Atentigo" seems like a strange word to me. It's apparently translated as "drawing attention." That sounds like an action, not a noun.
- gerund: I like dancing : Mi ŝatas danci.
- participle: Are you watching tele? : Ĉu vi rigardas la televidon?
- deverbal noun: Loud shouting makes me angry. : Laŭta kriado kolerigas min.
PrimeMinisterK (Montri la profilon) 2022-majo-29 20:22:41
Metsis:The "problem" is that English has three verb forms ending with -ing: gerund, participle and deverbal noun.Thanks for the info.
I think that the translation "drawing attention" falls into the last category, i.e. "drawing" is a noun derived from a verb. In any case Esperanto nouns ending in -igo and -ado often get translated into such deverbal nouns in English.
- gerund: I like dancing : Mi ŝatas danci.
- participle: Are you watching tele? : Ĉu vi rigardas la televidon?
- deverbal noun: Loud shouting makes me angry. : Laŭta kriado kolerigas min.
It seems you know a lot technical information about grammar. Do you work professionally in some related field?
Metsis (Montri la profilon) 2022-majo-30 07:36:50
No, I am not a professionally involved in linguistics or any related field. I was just good at elementary school and most of the time paid attention to what teachers said
so ,if I may say, I know the grammar of my native language pretty well and much of English too. I agree with what some have said, because the grammer of Esperanto is relatively simple, it is kinda exposed and thereby forces you to think your native language, how it works.
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