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FourSpeed (프로필 보기) 2009년 10월 27일 오후 8:43:44
mnlg:I guess lazy translators can always go with 'triko aŭ treto?'hehehe... isn't "triki aŭ treti" saying "to knit or to trample"?
(I'm not sure what the noun context would be here... A knitting or a trampling???)
Here's a fine (and funny to me, at least) example of why us English-speaking folk should be careful with anglicizing Eo
(although, I can recall a few Halloween revellers who could have used a good "trampling" in the past, but I guess I'm just an old "Get off my lawn" sort of meanie... 
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2009년 10월 28일 오후 1:23:56
FourSpeed:mnlg:Here's a fine (and funny to me, at least) example of why us English-speaking folk should be careful with anglicizing EoI concur - although I think it'd be better to say 'why us English-speaking folk should be careful with guessing Eo words with English ones' - anglicising the language is more like changing the language to reflect English, where as Triko aux treto is Esperanticising English words
Sinanthiel (프로필 보기) 2009년 11월 11일 오전 4:05:42
Anyway, prank/trick is petolaĵo. So, maybe it would be something like petolaĵo aŭ dolĉaĵo.
Regalon means to entertain, to treat with entertainment... It doesn't even refer to food at all. How I know this is because I am looking in my esperanto dictionary, and also regali is on lernu as entertainment.
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2009년 11월 11일 오전 4:26:45
Sinanthiel:Regalon means to entertain, to treat with entertainment... It doesn't even refer to food at all. How I know this is because I am looking in my esperanto dictionary, and also regali is on lernu as entertainment.Then again, our word 'treat' technically doesn't have anything to do with food either. It's current (normal) noun usage refers to an entertainment or outing, with that usage probably leading to a latter meaning of a small gift (maybe the entertainment or outing became regarded as a small gift, or gifts were given on the outing, I have no idea, so I may be wrong).
EDIT: as for what this translates into Esperanto, I'm not sure. All I can find is that regalo in Spanish and Italian seem to mean either present, gift or entertain (regalar), and regale in English means either a feast or meal or to provide a meal and entertainment. Of course Zam might not have used the same meaning.
