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Praktiki does not mean to practice. 

Praktiki does not mean to practice. 

Praktiki does not mean to practice. 

Praktiki does not mean to practice. 

PRAKTIKI DOES NOT MEAN TO PRACTICE.

Actually, it does kind of (;P), but only in the sense of  “Fulfill one’s profession”, e.g. “To practice medicine”, or “put into practice”, e.g. “to practice the teachings of a religion”.

Similarly, praktiko means “practice” only in the sense of “practice vs. theory”.

99.9999999….% of the time, when someone wants to say “to practice” they mean “ekzerci”. Also…

The object of ekzerci is not the thing you are practicing.

The object of ekzerci is not the thing you are practicing. 

The object of ekzerci is not the thing you are practicing. 

The object of ekzerci is not the thing you are practicing. 

THE OBJECT OF EKZERCI IS NOT THE THING YOU ARE PRACTICING.

“Ekzerci” literally means “to exercise/train”. The object is the thing being trained, which is often yourself (”min”), but may also be something else (e.g. your arms, a dog, soldiers…). You need a preposition (usually “en”) to introduce what you are practicing: “Mi ekzercas min en Esperanto” = “I am practicing Esperanto”.

Just to make it a little more difficult, I will say: “Oni povas ekzerci sin en io per praktikado de ĝi.” = “You can practice something by putting it into practice.” ;)

oh i see. because she is purpur.

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On This Day in History

July 26, 1887: Unua Libro is published, founding the Esperanto movement

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I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)

It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS

I,understand about a half of it, I speak some dutch

“What Happened? Did your computer catch a virus? Did you suddenly develop BSE [mad cow disease]?”

Between German, English, Latin, a bit of French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian that was actually pretty readable to me.

I speak English and a very little spanish, and I can read it. 

Super legible and I love it.

There are a few movies done partly or entirely in Esperanto, the most famous probably being Leslie Stevens’ Incubus (1966), a horror film starring William Shatner!

Speak English, know some Spanish and German. I could read this without much hassle and now I’m in awe.

So this is basically this is the equivilent of common

I really hate to be that guy but this is not Esperanto! It’s a *different* constructed language called Europanto. But the reasoning and cultural story behind it is the same. :)

Here’s the same text translated to “actual” Esperanto:

“Kio okazus se, kiam vi ŝaltus vian komputilon, vi trovus mesaĝon en tiu ĉi lingvo? Ne estas la angla, ne estas la germana, ne estas la hispana, ne estas la franca, ne estas iu ajn konata lingvo kiun vi komprenas! Do kio okazas? Ĉu la komputilo havas viruson? Ĉu vi subite ekhavis BSE-on? Ne, vi legas la novan eŭropan lingvon: Europanto! Europanto estas miksaĵo de la pli gravaj eŭropaj lingvoj kun ankaŭ kelke da aliaj eŭropaj lingvoj, iom da la latina, iom da la antikva greka.”

The first thing you’ll probably notice is that Esperanto uses a different alphabet than Europanto. The Esperanto alphabet has 28 letters including 6 with “hats”: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, ŭ. I believe this is unique from any existing “natural” European language, correct me if I’m wrong.

A lot of people think Esperanto looks and sounds like Spanish. If they speak Spanish, they say it sounds like Italian. If they speak both Spanish and Italian I’ve heard it sounds like Belarusian.

So even so, Esperanto is still quite Europe-centric, though I believe it does have some significant influence from Hebrew. The creator, L. L. Zamenhof, was a Jewish man living in Poland in the late 19th/early 20th century - he considered his “native” language to be Russian but spoke like 8 others - and Esperanto was his direct response to the political conflicts in that time and place. Only a bit later I think was there really a push for it to be a global “universal” language. That said, there are extremely active Esperanto communities in Africa, South America (esp. Brazil), and Asia (esp. China and Japan). This is because despite its clear European basis, it was designed to be very easy to learn.

Fun fact: the word “europanto” (or eŭropanto) in Esperanto would mean “someone who europes” lol

Esperanto speakers be like "pass me the aŭ cord i wanna play lil naŝ"

OK people I’m doing this… I would like some extra cash, so I’m gong freelance.

Do you want me to knit or crochet something for you*? Do you want me to design something knit or crochet for you? How about cross stitch? Did I mention I make up-cycled books?

If this sounds interesting to you, let’s chat! Do you know somebody who would be interested? Send them my way!

(*some restrictions apply)

Relevant links: my Ravelry projects page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/AlienSunset my Ravelry designer’s page: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/abigail-lalonde my cross stitch Etsy page: https://www.etsy.com/shop/wiats Books I’ve made: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjzkabHA

MR BEAN SHOULD NoT TRANSLATE TO “mY WIFE”

Forpasis Marjorie Boulton :-(

“Laŭ mia opinio la plej amuza kunveno de la Universala Kongreso estis kunveno de internacia kata rondo, kiu aperis antaŭ du jaroj kaj nun jam havas anojn en 28 landoj. La anaron kunligas modesta revuo  Folioj de Kat-amikaro“. Prezidantino de la societo estas prestiĝa angla verkistino Marjorie Boulton.

Antaŭ kunveno de la kat-amikaro okazis kunveno de delegita reto, kiu daŭris pli longe, ol estis destinita tempo. Sinjorino Boulton simple aperis inter la pordo kaj komencis parade miaŭi. la delegitaro ekridis kaj forlasis la salonon.”

Esperanto perdis unu el niaj plej ĉarmaj, varmkoraj, elstaraj, kaj brilaj steloj hieraŭ, 2017-08-30. Mi dirus ion pri movada perdo, sed mi nur povas pensi pri la ĝojo, kiun ŝi donis al mi per ŝia verko kaj vivo - kaj la malĝojo, kiun mi sentas nun.