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Ted Alper's blogbragging about my children, or yet ANOTHER freebie Esperanto can get you...I have frequently told the story of how I became interested in Esperanto when my 8-year old son, who was already becoming interested in languages and communication, came to me with his idea for making up a new language of his own.
poemoj petitajĈi-vendrede, la literatura klubo de la ret-gimnazio La poemoj ne devas esti en la angla -- fakte, tiuj, kiuj nun studas, aŭ jam majstris iun lingvon, estas kuraĝigitaj legi alilingve. Maybe math is not the universal language.The IMO (International Math Olympiad) questions have been These are VERY tricky problems!
maybe a bit too much on the google thing...Last week, I ran into a fellow to whom I had been introduced the week before. After some idle conversation, he startled me by asking about Esperanto! It turned out that, after our initial meeting, he had googled me, and links to Esperanto (such as this blog) show up fairly high on the page. An interesting discussion followed, but I was definitely a little shaken by the experience. Is this what I want my students -- or parents of students, or prospective employers, business partners, etc. -- to find if they search for info about me? oh, why the heck not? Esperanto is hardly my guiltiest pleasure, though I'm not sure the others are accessible online. (I suppose there are still some links to Pokemon out there). And, if it bothered me enough, I could use a pseudonym (is "doktoro suferanto" taken?)
Esperanto Day Exercise -- 119 years young! (Cent dek naux jaroj de juneco!)OK, instead of doing the work I need to do, or sleeping so I'll be at least fresh for work tomorrow, I've been sitting here free-associating and trying to translate as I go. I don't think this quite fits the suggested theme for Esperanto Day, but it will have to do. Today, December 15, marks the 147th birthday of L. L. Zamenhof ; Esperanto, itself, born in 1887, is now only 119 years old. [Admittedly, that can sound prehistoric! My 13 year old son describes the 1960s as a time before the internet, when people wrote in cuneiform, liked disco music, and treated illnesses with leeches. Of course, he's wrong about disco, that was later.] Not so brave new world, or another freebie Esperanto might get you...Ah, well, my unicode in the text-window for leaving a message in the lunch for my son seems to have broken the KidChow program! (Actually, I don't think it was the Esperanto, I had included some material on Oomoto, and apparently, it was the Japanese characters which made the system garble my order) From my email correspondence with the company: Brave new worldMy kids' school doesn't have a cafeteria, so they contract out for premade lunches one can order (I'll spare you the side stories about our particular needs and experiences with previous food vendors). We are trying out a new place, "Kid Chow" -- and I can order lunches (at least one week in advance) online, from their varied selection of school-appropriate lunches to be delivered at mid-appropriate-day. All well and good, but the esperanto connection comes because Harry Potter in Esperanto!Maybe everyone else knows about this already, but I stumbled upon it by chance at Libera Folio (in particular this story ). You can read the details there, but note there's a petition you can sign to encourage a major publisher to be willing offer the book (and so encourage the agent of the H.K. Rowling to consent to its publication) This is the banner that links to the petition: My reply to the article "lost in translation"
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