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Saluton!

Mi nomiĝas John kaj mi decidis komenci blogon pri kaj en esperanto. Plejparte, mi intencas verki esperante, sed mi ankaŭ okaze verkos angle (certe mi devis verki la unuan afiŝon esperante).

Tamen, kiu mi estas?

Mi esperantiĝis en 1980, kiam mi havas 18 jarojn. Dum mia unua dekjaro, mi estis pli-malpli aktiva esperantisto. Mi ne iris al kongresojn, sed mi estis fidela membro de mia loka grupo. Tiam, mi translokiĝis al suda kalifornio. Mi trovis grupon, sed post kelkaj jaroj mi ne plu ĉeestis iliajn kunvenojn.

Dum la jaroj post, mi havis maloftan kontakton kun aliaj esperantistoj. Okaze, mi iris al sciencfikciaj kunvenojn, kaj tie mi kunvenis kun aliaj esperantistoj. Bedaŭrinde, tie nia konversacio konsistis nur de "Saluton," "kiel vi fartas," kaj eble du aŭ tri pli frazoj.

English lessons in Esperanto

I have started a website of (American) English lessons.

The student has the option of doing the lessons in English, or in Esperanto.

These English lessons consist of questions, with answers provided. By attempting to answer the questions before looking at the solutions, you can treat this as a diagnostic quiz.

In order to provide focus and added interest, the questions are based on the content of the Consulate General of the United States, Guangzhou, China.

Accordingly, I call my website "Immigration English".

Here is the address of my website:

http://immigration-english.weebly.com/

Regards,
Mike Jones
18.May.2013
Fort Worth Texas USA

Website for the Errors and Omissions in Benson & Wells

I've just started a website devoted to listing the errors and omissions in various works, starting with the dictionaries of Benson and Wells. The website is just a stub, but you might be interested in taking a look at it. Here is the address:

http://www.errors-and-omissions.weebly.com

Regards,
Mike Jones
16.May.2013
Fort Worth Texas

List of Statistical Terms, with Esperanto translations

I have created a website devoted to Statistics.
My main priority was to create a raw list of terminology and phraseology, a list fairly comprehensive, but limited to Statistics to assist those studying this subject. I wanted a raw list without definitions cluttering up the list, so that the list would be easily perusable. This list is now ready. I call it the "long list" because I intend to create a short list from it, and also a tiny list from it, so the user can choose which list to peruse. It includes the option of downloading the list, in Microsoft Word format. (I will be adding the option of downloading the list in PDF format in the near future.)

This website of mine is item #90 in the list of recommended places of my public domain materials website:

http://www.public-domain-materials.com/recommended-places.html

Esperanto: the opposite of Basque

They say that Basque, "has no known origin, and has yet to be positvely related to any other language." Esperanto, on the other hand, has a well-known origin, and is positively related to a number of other languages. Therefore, Esperanto can be viewed as the opposite of Basque.

Regards,
Mike Jones
9.May.2013
Fort Worth Texas

MONTEREY MELT: POBLANO

Whataburger has a new offering called "Monterey Melt" that contains an ingredient that looks like an Esperanto word: poblano.

Here is the link to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary for "poblano":

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poblano

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

How to say "all of the"? How to say "all the"?

How does one say the following:

Who spilled all of the water?
He drank all of the water.
He gets his way all the time.
Johano Pasero

Do I have spinach on my teeth?

In the comments section of one of the Yahoo! News articles, someone thanked a non-American who make a perceptive remark about America, saying that such insight from others is important because we never see the spinach on our teeth. Of course, this can easily be expanded into a plug for Eseranto:

"In any discussion, we need the input of others, because we never see the spinach on our teeth, and Esperanto includes others like nothing else can do. "

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

Internacia Festivalo de Dalaso

La Esperanto-Klubo de Norda Teksaso kunlaboras en projekto por montri nian lingvon ĉe la Internacia Festivalo de Dalaso,la 25an de majo, 2013. Ni havos budon, standardon, broŝurojn, librojn, informon, kaj rakontojn por disdoni al la ne-esperantista publiko.

http://www.dfwinternational.org/DallasInternationalFestival/

Se vi estos en Dalaso tiun tagon, bonvolu veni al nia budo. Se vi povos helpi nin, bonvolu informi nin. Kontaktu min ĉe filipo@grupoj.org.

http://www.esperanto-tx.org/

Amike,
Filipo DORCAS

English is a flash in the pan. Esperanto is forever.

To someone insisting on English in the comments section of a Yahoo! News article on a certain linguistic topic a couple days ago, I gave 17 replies, one of which is, "English is a flash in the pan. Esperanto is forever."
Here is the link, in case you're interested:

http://news.yahoo.com/11-totally-redundant-place-names-093500365.html

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