This is a bit off topic, but I think it's relevant overall. Simply put, Amazon.com is telling print-on-demand publishers to use its own publishing service...
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Kjell Rehnström
cellus@...
Apr 2, 2008 8:59 am
... And I have seen "he must of done it". Only when I read it aloud I understood the meaning! The sad thing is that one is not aware of the mistakes one does. ...
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Geoffrey King
ancientbriton@...
Apr 2, 2008 9:18 am
... Absolutely right. I was thinking more of unusual derivations and syntax than new roots. I have long thought that what Esperanto needs most is not new roots...
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Andrew Nowicki
simple_language@...
Apr 2, 2008 11:26 pm
http://www.esperanto-usa.org/?q=node/120...
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Andrew Nowicki
simple_language@...
Apr 2, 2008 11:35 pm
http://www.esperanto-usa.org/en/node/1040...
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James Chandler
idojc@...
Apr 3, 2008 10:21 am
From the Francidol group recently (Jean Martignon): ===== (Nia samideano Gonçalo Neves sendis ica tre interesiva mesajo a la forumo idolisto responde a...
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Dave Rutan
rutan3@...
Apr 3, 2008 10:35 am
... Oh, then I'd have to agree that interesting use of our existing word stock and grammar are a good thing. For one thing most of the time the meaning is...
52901
Dave Rutan
rutan3@...
Apr 3, 2008 10:40 am
... Hey, The numbers would look much worse if I had the data for the late 1980s to put up. In any case tell me that any similar group has significantly rising...
52902
James Chandler
idojc@...
Apr 3, 2008 11:59 am
... significantly rising numbers in their membership. The internet has allowed Esperantists and others to shed much of the need of formal organizations to...
52903
Geoffrey King
ancientbriton@...
Apr 3, 2008 12:54 pm
... This is something I've noticed when Chinese, Japanese and other politicians (including Bang Ki Moon) are interviewed in English. They tend to be very...
52904
MacLeod Dave
mithradates@...
Apr 3, 2008 1:14 pm
... With Koreans and Japanese it's usually a problem of rhythm as opposed to pronunciation. One thing that most people here in Korea don't know is that English...
52905
Geoffrey King
ancientbriton@...
Apr 3, 2008 1:28 pm
... The combination "pl" at the start of words seems to give trouble all across the Romance languages. In Italian it almost always becomes "py" (piacere,...
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James Chandler
idojc@...
Apr 3, 2008 1:48 pm
... give trouble all across the Romance languages. Is this actually a synchronic phonotactic restriction, or just a diachronic development? I was aware of It ...
52907
Geoffrey King
ancientbriton@...
Apr 3, 2008 2:18 pm
... If I've understood the logic of this correctly, the Provisional Timeline would suggest that in about a century the world will have progressed sufficently...
52908
MacLeod Dave
mithradates@...
Apr 3, 2008 2:20 pm
... Yeah, they're just fine with it. Words with pl from the front page of the Italian Wikipedia: esplorare applicate tripletta completa -- ...
52909
James Chandler
idojc@...
Apr 3, 2008 2:39 pm
... the front page of the Italian Wikipedia: You have to be careful of where the syllable boundaries lie, or (as I learnt soon after joining this list) they...
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Antony Alexander
antonyalexander9@...
Apr 3, 2008 6:19 pm
Geoffrey King <ancientbriton@...>wrote, Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:10:56 +0100 ... Yes, that’s more or less how I see it. Esperanto is a great language but...
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steve rice
ansric@...
Apr 3, 2008 6:55 pm
... We've been over this before. The Internet has both revived and vitiated auxlang groups. The revival has come because of the ease of disseminating...
52912
steve rice
ansric@...
Apr 3, 2008 7:22 pm
... But why join? What is the benefit of joining when you can get most of the perks once reserved for members free online? I'm not a joiner for anything, and I...
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Franz Sledge
f_a_sledge@...
Apr 4, 2008 5:46 am
I wonder how the Esperanto-USA membership numbers compare to the Ygyde-USA numbers. ... This situation makes it nearly impossible to estimate the number of...
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steve rice
ansric@...
Apr 4, 2008 6:35 am
... a ... implementation ... all ... correct? ... for ... There are alternative explanations for Eo's lack of progress, however, and you don't seem inclined to...
52915
James Chandler
idojc@...
Apr 4, 2008 4:05 pm
So now it's the weekend and I have the time and motivation to browse an Italian dictionary, I want to settle in my own mind, if nothing else, the status of pl-...
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Antony Alexander
antonyalexander9@...
Apr 4, 2008 9:54 pm
... It’s open to question whether the three things you mention are more rational and efficient in the long run, even though they may superficially appear to...
52917
MacLeod Dave
mithradates@...
Apr 5, 2008 3:26 am
... Dvorak works better for other languages as well. There's an applet where you copy and paste a section of text which compares the amount of time spent on...
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Kjell Rehnström
cellus@...
Apr 5, 2008 8:10 am
... (Forvishita teksto:) Neniu povas preskribi al kio oni povas au ne povas uzi lingvon. Se la uzontoj de esperanto e ido en la futuro volos kon-fundigi siajn ...
52919
Kjell Rehnström
cellus@...
Apr 5, 2008 9:06 am
... Dum miaj omnaj jaroj en la esperanto-movado (movimento) mi havis la impreson ke estis mal-tro da junuloj. En mia personala experienco multaj personoj...
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Jens Wilkinson
jenswilkinson@...
Apr 5, 2008 11:51 am
... Somehow, I don't see how a rule that you have to add an -n to the end of nouns in the accusative case is creating more freedom. We've discussed this a lot...
52921
li_sasxsek@...
Apr 5, 2008 12:46 pm
... (yawn) Means nothing....
52922
li_sasxsek@...
Apr 5, 2008 12:51 pm
... opposed ... know ... to ... like ... Not ... the ... is ... speak ... the ... Yes, English is a stress-timed language, fitting stress points within even...
52923
Kjell Rehnström
cellus@...
Apr 5, 2008 12:53 pm
... Por vor information iberoamericanos have problemas con li pronunciation de kv+vocal in sved. Ti combination soven deveni [kw+vocal] o [k+vocal+v+vocal]....
