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Geico's esperanto speaking caveman

viết bởi Thehouse, Ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2007

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Thehouse (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 00:46:43 Ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2007

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 00:52:21 Ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2007

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

erinja (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 03:18:37 Ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2007

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 04:47:41 Ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2007

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 08:19:44 Ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2007

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

DesertNaiad (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 04:25:48 Ngày 22 tháng 3 năm 2007

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

RiotNrrd (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 01:50:46 Ngày 23 tháng 3 năm 2007

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 01:52:38 Ngày 23 tháng 3 năm 2007

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 (Xem thông tin cá nhân) 04:27:51 Ngày 23 tháng 3 năm 2007

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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