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Esperanto may actually solve it
Rather excitingly several of our Esperanto-speaking readers have commented on the Backbytes blog page in a language we don’t yet understand.
But being good global citizens, they also posted translations.
“The number of native speakers of Esperanto is closer to 2,000 than to 1,000,” offers Enrique, who runs the Esperanto Fremont pages. “But that is not important, because most of the Esperanto speakers, learned it as a second language.”
Or, in Esperanto “Sed tio ne gravas, cxar la plejmulto el ni, lernis Esperanton kiel duan lingvon.”
Viljo Blanka (translation: Bill White) claims that there are about 3,000 native speakers, but he doesn’t know who counted them.
“Mi estas kaj esperantisto kaj Morica dancantoj, do mi estas multoble malsama,” he says, which translates as: “But I’m an esperantist and a Morris dancer, so I’m multiply different”.
It’s a vision of a different world. Please could someone post some computing terms in Esperanto for our technical readers who might occasionally want to baffle a cold-calling non-speaker?
Probably the best source for computing terms is the "Komputada Leksikono" (= lexicon of computing), which you can find at:
http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/KompLeks/
For an English-language index, click on the letters in the left-hand frame under "Angle" (= English).
Posted by :Hoss | May 20, 2008 5:41 PM
Your Esperanto commentators may come over as a little weird.
As we say in England. "Bless!"
Perhaps British MP's are little weird as well, however. Eight British MP's have nominated Esperanto for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008.
You might like to confirm at http://www/esperanto.net
Posted by :Brian Barker | May 20, 2008 8:42 PM
Thousands of computing terms can be found at http://komputeko.net .
Posted by :Robert Weemeyer | May 20, 2008 9:52 PM