Kiu supre en cxi tiu hundino parolas Esperanton?

mia amiko patro estis oni de la inventors

Mi parolas al vi, Kazuistiko.
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La patro de tia amiko estis Zamenhof, remy?

La granda-granda avo de mia amiko estis Hector Hodler

La pra-pra-avo? Bonega!

Am I right to assume that anyone who claims to know Esperanto is bullshitting?

Yes.

Thought so.

Mi estas kontenta ke vi du estas en akordo.

http://www.totalshutdown.com/espdisk/1001z.jpg

http://www.parrygamepreserve.com/images/incubus/shatner7.jpg

Jes, mi povas paroli esperante. Sed mi povis plu bone kiam mi havis eble 18 jarojn.

Am I right to assume that anyone who claims to know Esperanto is bullshitting?

Really? There's only a million or two speakers of Esperanto in the world... You'd think there'd be a few on this board.

Also, there are a few on this board. Although I am very rusty. And that's, you know, OK.

A million or two people, including a few on this board, are bullshitting, amirite?

interlingua is a way better artificial language, botw

Are you just trolling or something? What are you even talking about? It's a really easy language to learn; I learned the grammar in like two weeks, and needed maybe two months to pick up enough vocab to have a reasonably fluent conversation with someone.

I'm not advocating that anyone learn it, necessarily (one of the big problems with Esperanto is that Esperantists mostly talk about Esperanto with one another, which... gets old), but it's not that big a deal to have learned it.

When I was 17 I gave a lecture in Esperanto on American Sign Language. I was a particularly nerdy kid, surprise surprise.

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I think somebody might think it was BS because they think peeps either don't really know Esperanto but claim they do, or because said peeps aren't man enough to study a real language. Anecdotally it seems that there isn't too much to know, you can learn all the rules in a few weeks and just work on vocabulary, so claims are actually modest. As to the second objection- again, anecdotally- seems like people study natural languages as well as the artificial one. Like this dude, for example. I know for me it is an enjoyable break from all my interminable stalled or slowed language learning projects.

I tried to teach myself Esperanto when I was bored at a summer internship in 1998. I found an online tutorial and was able to build up a pretty good vocabulary within a week (although I don't remember much). As Chris and Ken have pointed out, the rules are super-easy. And it's fairly easy to guess at what a word might be in Esperanto, since a lot of words are constructed based on their relationship to other words. Like "enemy" is the prefix "mal-" plus the word for friend ("amiko") = "malamiko."

^^^^^^ buncha bullshitters

dan perry in 2008 - he seriously gives a shit what any of you will says!!

the prefix "mal-"

I should point out that this is used to transform any word into its opposite.

^_^

Lundo, lundo.

Parolis esperante Ĉespirito?

I mean
Ĉu parolis esperante Ĉespirito?

That "Ĉu" question word was one of the few things Zamenhof took from his native Polish. The word for ball, "pilko," being another.

Voco Protesta is a Japanese crust-core band that claims to sing in Esperanto. They're probably just bullshitting though.

Sweeeeeeet.

More Esperanto crust-core! (WTH is "crust-core"?)

I used to like a British band called Esperanto, but they sang in English.

Dankon al Dio hodiaŭ estas vendredo!

(Dio estu dankata?)

Neniu ŝatas ĉi tiu fadeno.

Dankon al Dio, ke hodiaŭ estas vendredo.

Or: Dankon al Dio: hodiaŭ estas vendredo!

Or something like that. They're two separate clauses; the "dankon" has an implied subject and verb of "mi donas" or something along those lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nYAzPaV7sU

Felicxan Novan Jaron!

La granda-granda avo de mia amiko estis Hector Hodler

Mi pensas, tial mi estas.