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Lobby Google to mark Zamenhof's Birthday!

ya erinja, 3 Oktoba 2009

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Lugha: English

Momomomomo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Oktoba 2009 9:10:47 alasiri

Done it

CindyS (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Oktoba 2009 1:45:36 asubuhi

There was a quirky gmail commercial awhile ago that the punchline was that you would have more time to do important things, and then the head engineer whips out an esperanto book and says "like learn esperanto"!

I'm excited about this. I wonder what kind of logo they would come up with.

RiotNrrd (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Oktoba 2009 4:13:20 asubuhi

I sent off a note tonight, as well. Let's hope our efforts pay off!

tommjames (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Oktoba 2009 10:07:57 asubuhi

Done rideto.gif

Ailanto (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 12 Oktoba 2009 2:29:37 alasiri

CindyS:There was a quirky gmail commercial awhile ago that the punchline was that you would have more time to do important things, and then the head engineer whips out an esperanto book and says "like learn esperanto"!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVme_xIRYk

Momomomomo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 12 Oktoba 2009 7:06:08 alasiri

Ailanto:
CindyS:There was a quirky gmail commercial awhile ago that the punchline was that you would have more time to do important things, and then the head engineer whips out an esperanto book and says "like learn esperanto"!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVme_xIRYk
aww thanks google xxx
btw, whenever I here Americans say Esperanto it sounds like esper-'unt'-o and I've always said it esper-'ant'-o (as in english unt and ant), I know I sometimes make my 'a's a bit over nasal (all the pronunciation guides say "as in father" but I'm inclined to say it closer to 'can') the guy in the video is getting it wrong right? Otherwise I really need to work on my accent.

Sorry for major offtopicness

RiotNrrd (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 12 Oktoba 2009 8:20:19 alasiri

Momomomomo:btw, whenever I here Americans say Esperanto it sounds like esper-'unt'-o
That's because we americans only have one vowel - the schwa. ridulo.gif

Rogir (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 12 Oktoba 2009 8:34:47 alasiri

I think the best way to pronounce Esperanto is like the pope does, with a clear Italian a.

Ailanto (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Oktoba 2009 1:17:11 alasiri

RiotNrrd:
Momomomomo:btw, whenever I here Americans say Esperanto it sounds like esper-'unt'-o
That's because we americans only have one vowel - the schwa. ridulo.gif
and we can't agree on how to pronounce it!

rideto.gif

Ailanto (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Oktoba 2009 1:28:27 alasiri

Momomomomo:
Ailanto:
CindyS:There was a quirky gmail commercial awhile ago that the punchline was that you would have more time to do important things, and then the head engineer whips out an esperanto book and says "like learn esperanto"!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVme_xIRYk
aww thanks google xxx
btw, whenever I here Americans say Esperanto it sounds like esper-'unt'-o and I've always said it esper-'ant'-o (as in english unt and ant), I know I sometimes make my 'a's a bit over nasal (all the pronunciation guides say "as in father" but I'm inclined to say it closer to 'can') the guy in the video is getting it wrong right?
I dunno... the google guy's "a" sounds okay to me. But the "r" is wrong. (Though I often pronounce the "r" that way. I really dislike trilled/rolled/whatever "r".)

(More offtopic: The teacher for a Russian course I took in college was from Brooklyn. I don't think we ever managed to convince her that she had an accent. We'd pronounce words *exactly* like she did and she'd say No No No, like this, and we'd do it again, and she'd say No No No, like this, so we'd pronounce them not like she did but like on the audio tapes and she'd say Good.)

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