Re: [Offtopic] Re: New Proposed Xconq Web Site Online

[Jim Kingdon <kingdon at panix dot com>]

> Kaj vi povas relerni nur per klopodi.
> "And you are able to _____ ____ by/through ____."   (?)

Hint #1: "relerni" is a compound, "re/lern/i".
Hint #2: I could have said "sole" in place of "nur".
Not sure I can give a hint on "klopodi"; I don't actually know its
etymology.

> "do ne konfuzighu" -> "that one must not confuse" -> "that one must be 
> careful not to make" (??)

Hint #1: "konfuzighu" is a compound, "konfuz/igh/u".
Hint #2: Esperanto has 6 accented characters, 5 of which are ASCIIfied
by adding "h" at the end.  One of them appears here.
Hint #3: -igh- doesn't have a close English equivalent; you might need
some more examples to get it.

> I am going to have to figure out "pri"; I have seen it several times now.

Vi bezonas lerni pri la vorto "pri".

> (1) I have detected no repeated consonants or vowels thus far.

The only counterexample I can think of is the one and only one
Esperanto word I know of with an irregular spelling, "finna".  It's a
good reason to use the word "suoma" instead.  There might be examples
where the last letter of the first part of a compound word is the same
as the first letter of the second part, but even that I'm not sure of
- it wouldn't be easy to pronounce.

Another spelling/pronunciation example is that the word "aeroplano"
tends to be avoided by most esperantists I know, in favor of
"aviadilo", for reasons of sonority.

> (2) I have detected no potential diphthongs thus far.

My Esperanto book lists 6 diphthongs.  And no, this isn't a trick: a,
e, i, o, and u are all monophthongs.  Some of the diphthongs are quite
common, and have been seen many times in the Esperanto text on the
list so far.

> I suppose the language is intended to be lexically simple as well as 
> grammatically simple....

Ho jes.  La celo de esperanto estas ke ghi estu simpla.  La alia celo
estas esti neuxtrala.