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by Evildela, February 14, 2010

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Evildela (User's profile) February 14, 2010, 6:17:55 AM

Which should I use; I'm trying to write a very basic sentence for a children’s book "idea" of mine and was curious.

I'm writing the sentence.
(Two black and white penguins) now I’ve come up with these possible results:

1) du nigrablanka pingvenoj
2) du nigra kaj blanka pingvenoj

Which would you consider to be better in a children’s book, for ease of their learning.

KoLonJaNo (User's profile) February 14, 2010, 7:56:01 AM

Hello!

Evildela:Which should I use; I'm trying to write a very basic sentence for a children’s book "idea" of mine and was curious.

I'm writing the sentence.
(Two black and white penguins) now I’ve come up with these possible results:

1) du nigrablanka pingvenoj
2) du nigra kaj blanka pingvenoj

Which would you consider to be better in a children’s book, for ease of their learning.
Assuming you want to translate

two black-and-white penguins

I suggest using

du nigra-blankaj pingvenoj

Kolonjano

darkweasel (User's profile) February 14, 2010, 8:52:10 AM

KoLonJaNo:
du nigra-blankaj pingvenoj
According to PMEG, you can also write nigraj-blankaj.

Rogir (User's profile) February 14, 2010, 5:09:13 PM

If you write
du nigraj kaj blankaj pingvenoj

it cannot be misunderstood, since there must be more than one of both black and white penguins.

horsto (User's profile) February 15, 2010, 1:43:42 PM

Rogir:If you write
du nigraj kaj blankaj pingvenoj
it cannot be misunderstood, since there must be more than one of both black and white penguins.
HaHaHa! Very funny!
And if you write:
kvar nigraj kaj blankaj pingvenoj
it doesn't work any more!

ceigered (User's profile) February 15, 2010, 4:11:07 PM

Rogir:If you write
du nigraj kaj blankaj pingvenoj

it cannot be misunderstood, since there must be more than one of both black and white penguins.
Tiun mi malrapide komprenis.
That one took me a while to understand lango.gif.

How about three penguins? I take it then that there's a 33.3333333% chance that one of the penguins is missing out on a colour?

horsto (User's profile) February 15, 2010, 5:20:10 PM

ceigered:
How about three penguins?
I think this would mean that at least one penguine is nigra-blanka. rideto.gif

Miland (User's profile) February 15, 2010, 7:16:01 PM

It might be simpler to have a picture of two penguins and underneath

Jen du pingvenoj.

Pingveno havas du kolorojn, nigra kaj blanka.

ceigered (User's profile) February 17, 2010, 5:15:15 PM

horsto:
ceigered:
How about three penguins?
I think this would mean that at least one penguine is nigra-blanka. rideto.gif
Haha, this children's book is going to be VERY mathematical.

I think it should be moved into the genre of "Maths Primer: Chance and Percentages" lango.gif

Ironchef (User's profile) February 17, 2010, 5:38:52 PM

As an aside, you may or may not know that the word "Penguin" comes to us from the Cornish language (Kernewek), where "pen gwynn" means "white head". Many of the ships sailing to the south-seas for whaling in the eighteenth century were from the SW of England and could have included many Cornish-speaking sailors.

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