Mesaĝoj: 13
Lingvo: English
T0dd (Montri la profilon) 2006-oktobro-09 00:57:10
waxle:In a sense, the name "Esperanto" was the language's first idiom.
Since this was Zamenhof's chosen pen name, it makes sense. As a name for the language, it doesn't make much sense unless it is taken into the context and history of the language itself.
Frith Ra (Montri la profilon) 2006-oktobro-09 04:58:16
As I recall, people started calling it "Dr. Esperanto's Language" when he wanted it to be called "La Internacia Lingvo." One thing, as they say, led to another.
fojo (Montri la profilon) 2006-oktobro-10 12:57:57
Why do you thing of the noun as the root? ("espero"); I always think of the verb ("esperi") then -ant, someone who performs the action stated, and -o, used as a name. A participle "participates" in the nature of a verb and a name, not of a name and a name. I am saying this without real thinking, really; it is my intuition that too much thinking in esperanto is counterproductive.