Esperanto My favourite fantasy "The Name of the Wind" and its sequel by Patrick Rothfuss are the best fantasy novels out there. And if they're ever translated to Esperanto, I'll take holiday away from work and ignore all chores, bindings, and obligations (except Emmy the cat) until I&
Esperanto Esperanto of Dune In light of the Dune hype, and since it's my favourite science fiction series, I've picked out a few quotes for translation amusement. "how often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him" This one caught
Esperanto What stresses a grammarian? There's a place deep in the bowels of the PMEG where I stumbled into a section that felt almost emotional. Its author Bertilo Wennergren's passionate rant about the folly of Da-ism. I felt compelled to spread the word! The Esperanto word da is one of the
Esperanto A new land Koran dankon for making the journey over if you're coming from the old blog! The air's already feeling a little fresher on this side. If you're feeling adventurous, and either have Open AI API access or are willing to get it, check out my
Esperanto Inedibilification An Esperanto article gave me an idea for an English word: “inedibilify” = to make (something) inedible. And its corresponding noun form “inedibilification”. I suspect you might have even been able to parse out that meaning before I suggested it, because that “-ify” suffix in English is pretty neat for word-building
Esperanto Why not… Combine the power of -ig & -iĝ?! … It’s sheer madness, that’s why. But it’s fun, and that’s what we’re here for. I was trawling through the latest updates to the PMEG (because I know how to party), and found that it’s not entirely unheard of to combine the suffixes -ig &
Esperanto Tastify I’ve been playing around with making words in Esperanto recently. Been daydreaming in conversations with people. Every word they say that I don’t know in Esperanto, I try to make it, using only what I do know in Esperanto. In my playing, I’ve stumbled on a useful
Esperanto Unification day I was listening to really quite an interesting talk today, but the room was SO incredibly warm, and I’d had such a great deal for lunch. So I began to nod off… BUT! In an effort to stay awake and thinking, I began to listen really hard, and try
