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Geico's esperanto speaking caveman

Thehouse :lta, 21. maaliskuuta 2007

Viestejä: 9

Kieli: English

Thehouse (Näytä profiilli) 21. maaliskuuta 2007 0.46.43

Hey, apparently the cavemen from the geico commerncials are esperantistoj. If you go to cavemancrib.com, which is their apartment tour, on their fridge is esperanto word magnets.

Islander (Näytä profiilli) 21. maaliskuuta 2007 0.52.21

Yeah, that's wicked! That, to me, shows a company that cares (not for the esperanto part as much as attention to detail).

erinja (Näytä profiilli) 21. maaliskuuta 2007 3.18.37

Too bad whoever did the wording was obviously working from a dictionary and didn't speak the language, though.

It's cool that they even had the idea to do this, even if they didn't get the language right!

Mendacapote (Näytä profiilli) 21. maaliskuuta 2007 4.47.41

Yeah, it’s cool, but what does Esperanto mean for them? Sophistication? They put it there in the middle of an aseptic, minimalist and sort of futurist kitchen.

N244 (Näytä profiilli) 21. maaliskuuta 2007 8.19.44

That's quite cool! It's unfortunate that they didn't understand the grammar very well though. rido.gif

DesertNaiad (Näytä profiilli) 22. maaliskuuta 2007 4.25.48

Now I want (real) Esperanto fridge magnets. I wonder if anyone makes them...

RiotNrrd (Näytä profiilli) 23. maaliskuuta 2007 1.50.46

The ungrammatical stuff isn't very troubling for me because they're supposed to be... poetry refrigerator magnets. I've seen some "poetry" using English refrigerator magnets, and some of that was pretty ungrammatical as well. I mean, with refrigerator magnets you make do with what you've got!

Although I seem to remember that the first line was something like "Mi parolas esperanton". The accusative case isn't actually something I'd expect to see in a refrigerator magnet!

Nevertheless, I think it's pretty cool that they chose to associate Esperanto with "urbane sophistication".

pastorant (Näytä profiilli) 23. maaliskuuta 2007 1.52.38

RiotNrrd:

Although I seem to remember that the first line was something like "Mi parolas esperanton". The accusative case isn't actually something I'd expect to see in a refrigerator magnet!
If I can get E-o magnets made, would anyone be interested in them?

DesertNaiad (Näytä profiilli) 23. maaliskuuta 2007 4.27.51

pastorant:

If I can get E-o magnets made, would anyone be interested in them?
Depending on the price, yes, definitely. The closest I've been able to find is printer friendly sheets of blank magnet at Amazon.

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