New Eo Article at BBC website
貼文者: 1Guy1, 2010年2月6日
訊息: 16
語言: English
erinja (顯示個人資料) 2010年2月7日下午5:25:18
Hauxkins:Other than that, what I'm quoted as saying is reasonably close to what I actually said, so I'll chalk that up as a win.That's a definite win. The tone of the article is also rather positive.
Last time I was quoted for an Esperanto thing they got it completely wrong, and the article itself was less than flattering. Part of the headline was "Talking to themselves". The text is unfortunately not available online, but one gem from the article was "The gaggle of Esperanto enthusiasts quickly headed off to a youth hostel in Boston where they cooked a dinner of tofu stir-fry and Coca Cola and did their best not to speak English. "Parolu pli malmultirapido," a few kept saying, beseeching Higley and other more advanced Esperanto speakers to slow down."
...which I felt was a complete mischaracterization of the atmosphere of an Esperanto event (let alone that they got the grammar wrong on the Esperanto phrase, not that I find this surprising).
qwertz (顯示個人資料) 2010年2月7日下午6:00:40
"Esperanto is a language with building parts like a rack of Ikea"...
"Esperanto is like a silvester rocket with a wet match cord: Until today not fired(ekbruligis/ekflugis)" Hhm, but generally this report was quite positive.
PaulExcoff (顯示個人資料) 2010年2月8日上午1:09:47
erinja:Ikea is very popular; surely Esperanto must also be quite popular if it resembles Ikea products so closely?I think Esperanto needs Swedish meatballs...
ceigered (顯示個人資料) 2010年2月8日上午7:08:23
Rogir:And once again an English-language medium ignoring our beloved hats as if they aren't there. Would they do the same with French. Anyway, nice article.It's a newspaper article, not a bloody comprehensive guide to learning Esperanto
. Plus, Anglo-Celts have been in contact with the French for much longer than Esperanto has even existed, and even then only some keyboards have French diacritics (e.g. Mac ones), let alone Esperanto's own hatted-letters, and many newspaper journalists use special software to write their articles, so the poor journalist probably couldn't even write them in if he wanted to. ceigered (顯示個人資料) 2010年2月8日上午7:10:10
PaulExcoff:*salivates freely*erinja:Ikea is very popular; surely Esperanto must also be quite popular if it resembles Ikea products so closely?I think Esperanto needs Swedish meatballs...
Although, the thought of green meatballs does sound a bit yuck.