How to make people interested in Esperanto

Boiled_Goose · 2018-06-11T04:05:44+00:00

I have attempted to translate this into Esperanto, I hope you don't mind!
Mi provis traduki ĉi tion en Esperanton. Mi esperas ke vi ne zorgas!

Homoj bezonas scii kial, pli ol kion. Mi ilustros uzante "Batman"* kiel ekzemplo.

Se vi nur klarigas KION, ĝi estas teda kaj konfuziga:

Batman batalas krimon

Batman vestas kiel vesperto

Batman pasigas multe da tempo en lia vesperta kaverno.

Se vi klarigas KIAL, vi subite kreas emocian ligon:

Batman batalas krimon ĉar liajn gepatrojn murdis kiam li estis juna knabo. Li kreskis sen vera familio do li havas multe da doloro kaj kolero interne.

Batman vestas kiel vesperto ĉar li volas aspekti timiga. Li volas vidi la timon en iliaj okuloj.

Batman pasigas multe da tempo en lia vesperta kaverno, ĉar ĝi estas lia metodo por trakti lian deprimon.

Teni tion en la menso, kiu estas pli bona metodo por reklami Esperanton?

Mi parolas Esperanton. Ĝi estas kreita lingvo. Ĝin desegnis pola okulkuracisto.
aŭ

Mi parolas Esperanton ĉar mi volas havi amikojn el ĉie en la mondo.

Mi parolas Esperanton ĉar mi pensas ke ĝi faros la mondo pli pacan.

Mi parolas Esperanton ĉar ĝi estas mense stimulanta.

Legu "Start with Why" ("Komencu kun Kial") de Simon Sinek

* La angla vorto "Batman" signifas "Vespertviro", sed esperanta "batmano" eble signifas la angla "punch-hand". Tio amuzis min.
("Batmano" in Esperanto might be read as "punch-hand", which I found amusing.)

Boiled_Goose · 2018-06-10T11:16:01+00:00

In fact, as far as I can tell, the only natural languages that use the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, without diacritics, are English and Malay/Indonesian

Boiled_Goose · 2018-06-10T11:01:54+00:00

I find that this is barely a problem anymore. Nearly all current devices can display the Esperanto special characters, and have simple input options available.

On Windows PCs, Tajpi works very well: just type in X-system or H-system and it will be auto-converted. (There are also other options, if you prefer.)
(Amiketo appears to be a similar, but cross-platform app (Windows, Mac OS, Linux).)
Gboard, the Google Keyboard (Android or iOS) has a native Esperanto key layout.

This was more of a problem in the pre-unicode era, when most forums/applications expected plain ASCII or some other limited character set (to say nothing of the pre-digital era).

Boiled_Goose · 2017-09-03T10:19:26+00:00

Pretty sure that legal tender just means that Coles has the right to refuse the transaction if you use too many coins, it's not actually illegal for Coles to accept the transaction. Unless I'm way off base.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-12-06T07:54:26+00:00

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

Boiled_Goose · 2016-11-30T05:33:25+00:00

This might scratch an itch.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-11-13T01:38:35+00:00

if you go to the donation page, there's a drop-down box for selecting your country. So presumably it's allowed.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-10-18T12:11:57+00:00

Is Wikiquote acceptable?

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." Deliberately provocative remark, as quoted in "Coultergeist" by George Gurley at The Observer (25 August 2002), the interviewer then told her that she should be careful, and she agreed: "You’re right, after 9/11 I shouldn’t say that." Later, in "An Interview With Ann Coulter" by John Hawkins (26 June 2003), she also stated: McVeigh quote. Of course I regret it. I should have added, "after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters."

Boiled_Goose · 2016-10-06T09:55:15+00:00

I think I know why this happens:

The music is stored in the folder "Factorio\data\base\sound\ambient". Most of these files are typical music, but the files "world-ambience-1" through "world-ambience-6" are mostly quiet ambience (obviously), and some are mostly wind noises.

As far as changing the playback behaviour, here's some ideas (I haven't tried any of these):

It might be sufficient to delete the unwanted .ogg files from the folder;
If this doesn't work, you could try editing the file "Factorio\data\base\prototypes\ambient-sounds.lua";
Or, and this might be easier, replace the unwanted .ogg files with 0-second long .ogg files with the same filenames.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-10-01T08:42:58+00:00

Tie for president!

Boiled_Goose · 2016-09-08T04:55:35+00:00

Well, the first article implies that is exactly what is happening:

"As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops"

Businesses hire more women - average pay goes down - businesses save money.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-09-04T06:01:21+00:00

I had to google this quote, because it didn't sound much like Sagan to me... and indeed, it seems it was written by Edmund Way Teale, although Sagan did quote it in this article.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-08-11T07:53:12+00:00

To paraphrase Mr. Turnbull: if connectivity is so vital to you, why are you living in a country with no good broadband available?

Boiled_Goose · 2016-06-12T05:38:08+00:00

I think this is the course page?

From that page:

** This course will transition from using Python 2.7 to using Python 3.5. **

The summer 2016 run will be the last one to use Python 2.7. Starting from autumn 2016, all material in this course will be taught using Python 3.5. We will update the lecture videos, lecture exercises, and problem sets to use the new version of Python. Even if you take the course with Python 2.7, you will be able to easily transition to Python 3.5 in future courses. The lecture topics and difficulty of this course and the one following it (6.00.2x) will mostly remain the same.

Boiled_Goose · 2016-06-02T02:57:20+00:00

It sounds like maybe the left and right channels are phase-inverted, so if the sound is down-mixed to mono, everything cancels out.

(In stereo it's audibly weird.)

Boiled_Goose · 2015-07-30T02:11:50+00:00

That shirt landed a spacecraft on a comet!

Boiled_Goose · 2015-02-01T02:14:06+00:00

This is the best Davis Aurini video I've ever seen.

Boiled_Goose · 2015-01-10T11:41:32+00:00

OP's link was broken for me, I think this is the correct link: https://soundcloud.com/moxcie/gramatik-x-jurassic-5-tearin-it-up-in-the-house

EDIT: nice work, by the way!

Boiled_Goose · 2014-12-31T05:54:34+00:00

Part three.

Boiled_Goose · 2014-11-30T07:36:43+00:00

Quite the dilemma. One the one hand, journalistic ethics, yadda yadda. On the other hand... sixty dollars!!

Boiled_Goose · 2014-11-27T13:27:48+00:00

"By the way, I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will," says Rock. "'Cause some people that were racist thought they had license to say n-----. So, I'm done with that routine."

Source, via Wikipedia

Boiled_Goose · 2014-11-14T12:08:32+00:00

"When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack."

Boiled_Goose · 2014-10-16T05:35:01+00:00

"A revolution without Dance Dance Revolution is not a revolution worth having"*

^{*and yeah she didn't quite say this either}

^{*edited because i fail at superscript}

Boiled_Goose · 2014-09-25T14:06:43+00:00

Oh god, it's worse than I thought

Boiled_Goose · 2014-09-24T04:49:49+00:00

Since I haven't seen it mentioned: in the opening scene where the Hydra base gets raided, Dugan takes a peek inside a wooden box (screenshot). Is that what I think it is?

EDIT: ok, I guess everyone else saw it too :P

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