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Lobby Google to mark Zamenhof's Birthday!

від erinja, 3 жовтня 2009 р.

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Мова: English

Momomomomo (Переглянути профіль) 7 жовтня 2009 р. 21:10:47

Done it

CindyS (Переглянути профіль) 9 жовтня 2009 р. 01:45:36

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 (Переглянути профіль) 9 жовтня 2009 р. 04:13:20

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

tommjames (Переглянути профіль) 9 жовтня 2009 р. 10:07:57

Done rideto.gif

Ailanto (Переглянути профіль) 12 жовтня 2009 р. 14:29:37

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 (Переглянути профіль) 12 жовтня 2009 р. 19:06:08

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 (Переглянути профіль) 12 жовтня 2009 р. 20:20:19

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 (Переглянути профіль) 12 жовтня 2009 р. 20:34:47

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

Ailanto (Переглянути профіль) 14 жовтня 2009 р. 13:17:11

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 (Переглянути профіль) 14 жовтня 2009 р. 13:28:27

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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