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313 (Mostra il profilo) 23 luglio 2011 20:55:45
Miland (Mostra il profilo) 23 luglio 2011 21:06:15
darkweasel (Mostra il profilo) 23 luglio 2011 21:40:22
sudanglo (Mostra il profilo) 24 luglio 2011 13:10:10
Diablo (Mostra il profilo) 24 luglio 2011 14:24:59
darkweasel:How do you recognize someone who speaks Polish on the street without them telling you?Excellent point.
From my modest experience, the esperantist community is one of the most heterogeneous linguistic communities out there.
If anything, the only thing one esperantist may have in common with another, is that they are both (at the very least) bilingual.
3rdblade (Mostra il profilo) 25 luglio 2011 03:50:39
geo63 (Mostra il profilo) 25 luglio 2011 10:40:32
darkweasel:How do you recognize someone who speaks Polish on the street without them telling you?That is easy - just ask if he speaks Polish. If he does not understand you, he must be Polish.
sudanglo (Mostra il profilo) 25 luglio 2011 22:24:41
Perhaps that happened because not so many people wear jackets with lapels nowadays.
Maybe we need a new design to fit modern styles of clothing.
acdibble (Mostra il profilo) 26 luglio 2011 03:43:05
ceigered (Mostra il profilo) 26 luglio 2011 10:45:29
geo63:darkweasel:How do you recognize someone who speaks Polish on the street without them telling you?That is easy - just ask if he speaks Polish. If he does not understand you, he must be Polish.
You sir win a pack of assorted Zams for that joke!
(I say assorted, but there's only two variations)
Sudanglo:Maybe we need a new design to fit modern styles of clothing.Maybe some printed shirts, or other clothing with words or titles or logos written in Esperanto might be both stylish for people with relatively sterile fashion sense like me, while being a dead set give away of their Esperantuleco.
But what could be written on a shirt and look cool, and be cool when explained to friends? (Vivu Esperanto! might be a little uncool, while jokes would be a bit too niche. Something like a sports (or extreme sports) t-shirt might work well (for example, I have a T-shirt with some french stuff about some premier team in fancy writing on the front. Perhaps the same is possible with Esperanto, since Esperanto works well as a "pseudo-latin", that looks recognisable but isn't italian/french etc).
Maybe something incomprehensible or cool sounding but actually very stupid in meaning like "Ano sen grupo" written in a cool font, or "Minutoj 'stas Mono", or "Primara Specnazano" or something that seems witty or cultural without actually being so. (and to keep with the theme they have to be in a very hard to read font/look weathered/something like that).