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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6190 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 25 of 45 03 August 2009 at 12:22am | IP Logged | |||||
Well I don't have an Edufire account. Sorry for such ignorant questions, but do I need to sign up to watch your lecture? And I live in Hawaii, so would that mean I need to tune in at 9AM on the 9th? It's a real shame Edufire doesn't LABEL THE TIME... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5865 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 26 of 45 03 August 2009 at 2:49am | IP Logged | |||||
Why is that worth an OMG? If they weren't trying to stop it, it would be worth a WTH (OMG is reserved for cute lil girls, so I'm not allowed to use it). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5842 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 27 of 45 03 August 2009 at 10:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks for pointing that out. I won't use that expression again.
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6376 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 28 of 45 03 August 2009 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof (1859-1917) whose 150th birthday is being marked this month by
an International Esperanto Congress in his birthplace, Bialystok, Poland. Just a suggestion, but don't you think it might simply be because of Dr Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof's birthday this month that the higher-than-average media coverage has come about? Seems perfectly logical to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 29 of 45 03 August 2009 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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qklilx, yes, that's 9am Hawaii time on Sunday. However, to attend the class you have to log into Edufire (and create an account if necessary) and click "Register for class".
If you want to see the lecture and can't make it at that time, I still recommend registering, because then Edufire will allow you to watch a video of it afterwards. It's really stupid but I can't export that video, so I think registering and not showing up is the best way. But if you can be there, do attend, it's a lot better than a recording because I involve the participants. ElvenLord, from one of Tolstoy's letters:
Cordelia, it depends on the speakers' origin whether they speak English. When I was in [the non-touristy part of] Beijing 2004, I didn't find anybody who could speak English adequately, including all Asian participants of the World Esperanto Congress which was taking place there. In Germany, the picture is different because every German has to study English at school for several years. However, even here there are very few Esperantists who speak English more fluently than Esperanto.
I do not see why Interlingua "has roots" and Esperanto doesn't... both are invented and both are almost equally distant from Latin I would say. Esperanto may have more Germanic roots, but most of Interlingua is not drawn from Latin but from modern Romance languages, which would not be comprehensible to a Latin native speaker. Maybe you were thinking of Latine Sine Flexione? Even that would confuse the hell out of a Roman, and it does not make Latin literature accessible to you... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6542 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English* | Message 30 of 45 03 August 2009 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was under the impression that Interlingua was for languages that fell under the branch of Latin, thus having its roots. Of course, what I'm writing about is beyond my knowledge of invented languages, so I'm unavoidably producing bullshit on this matter. Now that I've looked into Latine Sine Flexione, I think that I used the two interchangeably.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6015 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 31 of 45 03 August 2009 at 8:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
The main plus of Interlingua (so they say) was that it based it's vocabulary on international scientific jargon, so all the Latin terms you would see in a medical or legal text were there in unaltered form, whereas Esperanto adjusted them to fit for grammatical endings etc. It does mean it loses in the regularity stakes, though....
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| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5987 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 32 of 45 04 August 2009 at 4:30am | IP Logged | |||||
How does the British government make money out of the usage of English by the EU?
Not really. Languages aren't property. Edited by JS-1 on 04 August 2009 at 4:31am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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