You're kidding, right? The guy who invented Esperanto thought Esperanto was "dumb, baby shit"? Not likely. Of the languages he was most familiar with, Spanish was not one of them. He was, however, familar with French: - I hope - j'espère

It doesn't have to be everyone. Just the person you want to talk to.

Wow, yes. I remember this one. I think it was a big deal because it was in 3D - COLOR 3D even. Am I thinking of the right film. It would be fun to find this and watch it - just for the nostalgia and to see what I actually do remember.

For YOU maybe. For me it was three Saturdays and two Sundays - and I work Saturdays.

I was just discussing with some folks how easy it is (or isn't) to mix up Spanish and Esperanto when picking from a list of languages. I wonder if this is related. > My spanish (Esperanto?)

It seems to me there is something in this chain of retweets (oops, I mean "quote tweets") worth reflecting on. Quote-posting to remind myself to do this.

If anybody witnesses the Duolingo Esperanto course being "incorrect", please post screenshots. 1 - I've found that people are too quick to say that something in Duolingo is incorrect. 2 - If it is incorrect, I'd love to be able to tell my students. 3 - I want to see Duolingo fail.

So many posts on BlueSky that mention Esperanto are jokes of the format: 1 - Say ordinary thing 2 - Add the word Esperanto or change one word to Esperanto 3 - ????? 4- Humor

Esperanto might not help what? While I hesitate to call Esperanto a "conlang", nearly all its vocabulary can be traced to other languages, so I find that it helps quite a bit. to @lwflouisa.bsky.social

There should be a checkbox in search that excludes results from people who have replies and quote-posts disabled. Why are those comments even public?

Oh that William Shatner. This is a GREAT line. Not at all true, but this is really creative humor.

If it's any consolation (dear @apcbapcb.bsky.social or anybody reading along), I will never act like you're speaking Esperanto ... erm ... unless you were actually speaking Esperanto.

"'Bonlingvismo' perdis la vojon" Diskutu

As someone who has used Esperanto daily for decades, I never cease to be amazed by comments like this. At the same time, it's clear that this is a very natural reaction to Esperanto. [check for replies.]

Why not just learn Esperanto and speak with the people who are already into it? @postgrunge.bsky.social

Clearly this is meant as a joke, but given the number of white people who speak Esperanto, couldn't you have come up with something a little more clever for the first bit. Maga Republican shocks café... Woman with natural hair color shocks... Person under 35 shocks... Talented singer shocks...

Montru viajn dudek vortojn por montri vian progreson.

Lammy - I wonder if you'd clarify what you mean by "good" here. It seems to me that if a person is constructing a personal language, they should follow their interest. If their interest includes scripts, they should follow that. If not, then there's no "good" in doing something that doesn't.

This was a reply to: Mandarin Chinese is a manufactured language To have a unified Chinese language And it worked (Esperanto not so much)

So we have Bovino, whose name means cow, Rubio/Rubujo whose name means garbage can (or "shithole country") - but what can we say about Mike Johnson other than it's a special kind of penis that you can talk into?

Kaj nun vi perfekte regas Esperanton.

As it turned out, wearing sweat pants was a mistake. It was nice to start out, but they're virtually impossible to remove on the road and so by the time I got to work I'd shed everything but a long-sleeve T-shirt on top and I was still too warm. Temps were much more mild for the ride home.

It's -1C outside and I have to bike to work again. I'm dreading the cold, but at the same time I'm re-assured that every morning so far that I've dreaded the cold I ended up too hot by the time I got to work. The source of my current dread is I don't know which feeling will be the right one today.

Fun facts don't have to be true to be fun But sometimes language is poetic

Kiu volas esperantumi kun mi en la Bovina Tombejo?

The problem of trying to speak to waterfowl while at an Esperanto event

"That guy" was described as "Esperanto guy". To be honest, Daniel Kennedy is not the only one who is afraid.

EDAD? That's my favorite ukulele tuning!

Mi relegas "La Bona Lingvo". Mi forgesis ke mia ekzemplero estas subskribita de la verkinto

Apparently the Kotava folks didn't like it when I guessed that there were probably 2 fluent Kotava speakers in the world. They tried very hard on Reddit recently to convince me otherwise. But even they seem willing to admit that there's less than one in the US.

Я думаю, мы сможем найти общий язык

To whom it may concern, if you ever hear a member of my family say "as you see", what they really mean is "well DUH!"

I don't know about anybody else, but me, yes. I think about it all the time.

Today I learned that i have a Russian alias: Слюнявец. People use this name to talk about me behind my back in Russian on the Esperanto discord server. Everybody should have a Russian code name.

No post on Sunday!

As it happens, a linguist is visiting as we speak. I asked him how he unwinds. After thinking about it a while, he said he watches Evildea expose fake polyglots. He offered that Evildea can be "cringe" -- and he didn't know that Evildea got his start as an Esperanto youTuber. Myth: CONFIRMED

I made kind of a joke comment this morning and then added the hashtag #EsperantoIsReal . The more I think about it, the more I think this could be a serious idea (although maybe a catchier hashtag is in order). Maybe it cold be #HahaEsperanto

You stand for language rights You think that Klingon bites Oh Esperanto, you!

My latest #shavian practice. Who can guess what I'm doing here? Spoilers in the replies below. I've been reading Androcles and the Lion every day at lunch and it's really helping, but I still sound like a first grader sounding out words out loud.

SHUT IT DOWN!

@nemocs.bsky.social suggested that this sign might be in Esperanto. Obviously it is not, but I was sure it said "We are experts on Dlablabla" -- after staring at it, I made a connection with some BAD Esperanto I've seen... And realized slowly that "aperts" is meant to mean "open" -- on Sundays.

I often say that Esperanto's worst enemy is obscurity. Time for this meme to come back for another visit.

𐑑𐑩𐑛𐑱 𐑲 𐑮𐑰𐑛 𐑞 𐑓𐑻𐑕𐑑 𐑐𐑱𐑡 𐑝 ·𐑨𐑯𐑛𐑮𐑩𐑒𐑤𐑰𐑟 𐑯 𐑞 𐑤𐑲𐑩𐑯. 𐑦𐑑 𐑑𐑫𐑒 𐑩𐑯 𐑬𐑼! #shavian

𐑲 𐑥𐑱𐑛 𐑩 𐑚𐑫𐑒𐑥𐑸𐑒 𐑑 𐑒𐑳𐑝𐑼 𐑞 𐑑𐑮𐑩𐑛𐑦𐑖𐑩𐑯𐑩𐑤 𐑑𐑧𐑒𐑕𐑑 - 𐑞𐑧𐑯 𐑓𐑬𐑯𐑛 𐑬𐑑 𐑞 𐑚𐑫𐑒 𐑒𐑱𐑥 𐑢𐑦𐑞 𐑢𐑳𐑯. #shavian

I often refer to a moment where I was sure that I would always be able to read Esperanto - even if I never did anything else with it - and thus Esperanto would always be "mine". I never got to test the idea because I still use Esperanto. Nice to see that someone else did.

Not only do I speak Esperanto - but I also know what an Esperanto Doughboy is. I've even got the t-shirt AND a somewhat bizarre story from the owner of how I got it. AND I know that they're called hoboys [sp?] now bc they didn't want any trouble with trademarks. Oh, and they're too yummy to throw

There's some funny stuff on BSky. I just read this from an account that doesn't allow replies or quote-posts. > Yes in theory you would think there would be classes for Esperanto, Quenya, and other artlangs, and how to build a UI or game engine from it. Esperanto... and other artlangs?

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Ne estas tro malfrue reveni kaj refreŝigi la sciojn pri Esperanto.

Se vi volas, ke aliaj homoj interesiĝu pri viaj aferoj, provu verki unu/du frazojn pri via projekto en Esperanto *senerara*. Mi tute ne volas legi/vidi/aŭdi la esperantaĵojn de persono kiu ne povas skribi du liniojn sinsekve sen, ekzemple, tute fuŝi la akuzativon je ĉiu apero / neapero.