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The Wikipedia article on Wikipedia mentions Esperanto.

Wikipedia has, naturally, an article on itself, explaining its philosophy, etc. It so happens that in that article Esperanto is mentioned explicitly - not on account of Vikipedio, but on account of the role of Unicode in enabling the use of other languages. The relevant passage (under "Language editions") is, "The coexistence of multilingual content on Wikipedia is made possible by Unicode, whose support was first introduced into Wikipedia in January 2002 by Brion Vibber after he had similarly implemented the alphabet of Esperanto." Here is the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Regards,
Mike Jones
7.Apr.2013
Fort Worth Texas

Are you in hot water with Esperanto?

What does Esperanto have to do with dunking your produce in hot water? It turns out, according to a recent Yahoo News story, that this is an easy way to prolong their freshness. Well, this is just another case where they could have been talking about Esperanto, right? Here is the comment that I posted to the story:

"Learning Esperanto has the same effect on your native language (English, in this case): It helps you preserve your knowledge of grammatical structures and useful phraseology."

And here is the link to the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/shocking-hot-tip-preserving-produce-185731221.html

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Mike Jones
5.Apr.2013
Fort Worth Texas

Link-Based Word-Extensions

I have begun a website of link-based word-extensions. This consists of linking words to web pages where they play a significant role. For example, the word "hope" links to Esperanto (the home page of this website), as do the words "auxiliary" and "international".

Link-Based Word-Extensions is item #179 in my Public Domain Materials website:

http://www.public-domain-materials.com/table-of-contents.html

Regards,
Mike Jones
4.Apr.2013
Fort Worth Texas

Monthly Mathematics Circular

I have started a monthly Mathematics circular.
It is item #177 in the table of contents of my public domain materials website:

http://www.public-domain-materials.com/table-of-contents.html

Note: I have upgraded my website address, dropping the "weebly" designation. (However, the old address will automatically forward to my new address.)

My website address is now:

www.public-domain-materials.com

An Esperanto version of the circular is available at the same location.

Regards,
Mike Jones
3.Apr.2013
Fort Worth Texas

typo in E-USA book invoice

It seems to me that there is a typo in the book invoice used by E-USA, namely, the text "Addressee/Sendato". At the very least, "Sendato" should be changed to "Alsendato", because "sendato" means "one who is being sent", NOT "addressee". But the deeper issue is that this text should not be using the term "addressee" in the first place, as it sounds too much like the associated text "Ship to/ Sendu al". I believe the traditional text used is "Billing Address", so, this should be "Billing Address/Faktura Adreso", right?

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Mike Jones
29.Mar.2013
Fort Worth TX

Big Cheese Quotes

While browsing the web, I happened across a list of quotes by Joe Anthony Blum. The list is bilingual: English and Esperanto. I don't know if it's ever been mentioned in this forum, but even if it has, it is such an extensive and impressive list that it deserves mention again. Here is the link:

http://clozeonline.us/cgi-bin/cheesearch10u.cgi?searchwords=03-30

Regards,
Mike Jones
28.Mar.2013
Fort Worth TX

Do you think there is any hope for Esperanto?

A: "Do you think there is any hope for Esperanto?"
B: "Your grandchildren will speak the language."

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Mike Jones
17.Mar.2013
Fort Worth Texas

Formulo por la Leĝo de Engel

En la intruado den la analitiko, estas bonege havi facile-kompreneblajn emperiajn interpretojn den la diversaj formuloj (funkcioj) renkontitaj, por mencii al la studentoj. Unu funkcio kiu ofte okazas en matematikaj diskutoj estas la funkcio f(x) = log(1 + x). Efektive okazas, ke la Leĝo de Engel estas (kvalitece) modelita per ĉi tiu funkcio, kie x estas la enspezo de la domanaro, kaj f(x) estas la elspezo de la domanaro por manĝaĵo. Tamen, ĉi tiu fakto ne estas menciita en Wikipedia, nek en Investopedia, do mi pensis, ke estus bone elmontri tion ĉi.

Plia demando, ne pritraktita ajne far Wikipedia, nek Investopedia, estas ĉu la Leĝo de Engel validas inverse. Supozeble, ja. Tio estas por diri, se vi elspezas malpli da tempo en manĝado, kaj elspezas responde pli da tempo en prizorgado den via profesio, ĉu povas ne okazi, ke via enspezo pligrandiĝos?

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Tiu ĉi teksto troviĝas ene de ero #172 en mia retejo:

The Extension of English

Here's the link to a cute poem titled "The Extension of English", in which the author laments the deliberate wordiness used by English speakers. I was wondering whether there is a similar trend in other languages, including Esperanto.

http://domesticdoggerel.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-extension-of-english_12...

Regards,
Mike Jones
8.Mar.2013
Fort Worth Texas

typo in website

The "Join E-USA" menu item in the menu bar contains a typo. One of the items in its drop-down menu is "Contact Us". Holding the mouse on "Contact Us" results in an obsolete explanatory text, namely, "How to communicate with ELNA".

fyi.
Regards,
Mike Jones
6.Mar.2013
Fort Worth Texas