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From: Nick Rezmerski <rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Esperanto-English
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 19:43:16 GMT
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kichenas@s6.math.umn.edu (Satyanad Kichenassamy) wrote:
>
> In article <3k9d80$1t0@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> s_salomo@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Thierry Salomon) writes:
> >
> [...]
> >What Esperanto proposes is :
> >
> >- no prononciation exceptions a letter (? character) is always spoken the 
> >  same way.
> >
> >- a handy word formation system, for each root you learn you know
> >  at least 20 new words.
> >
> >   Example :
> >	root :    parol-
> >     paroli    to speak     (-i = infinitive)
> >     parolo    uttered word (-o = noun)
> >     parola    oral         (-a = adjective)
> >     parole    orally       (-e = adverb)
> >     parolado  speech       (-ad- =lasting action)
> >     parolanto the one who is speaking (-ant = present participe)
> >     parolisto speaker (on TV for ex.) (-ist = profession) 
> >
> >     This enables you to know words you have never learnt before.

Don't forget:
     parolema      talkative      (-em-  = tendency)
     parolinda     worth speaking (-ind- = worthiness)
     parolenda     must be said   (-end- = obligation)
     parolebla     speakable      (-ebl- = possibility)
     neparolebla   unspeakable    (opposite of speakable - literally
        not speakable, "can't be said," not like the English idiom)
     parolebleco   "speakability" (-ec-  = abstract quality)

I'm sure some of these have simpler equivalents using other roots,
but they are all valid and may better convey the sense you want.

> 
> It appears from the above that the same radical covers the
> semantic fields of `speak' and `utter.' Is that the case?
> Does Esperanto distinguish between the verbs
> 
> to speak
> to say
> to tell
> to talk
> to utter?
> 
> I gather parol- is modeled specifically after French and
> related languages.
> 
> Since there is no universal classification of semantic fields
> which would be valid for all languages simultaneously, it
> is unclear how to build a really universal language. Indeed,
> the evolution of many words (such as spirit, mind, reason, ...)
> is not independent of cultural factors.
> 
> 
>                                 Satyanad Kichenassamy
>                                 School of Mathematics
>                                 University of Minnesota
>                                 kichenas@math.umn.edu

     paroli  = to speak/talk
     diri    = to say
     rakonti = to tell/relate
     deklami = to recite
     babili  = to babble/chatter
     eldiri  = to utter/blurt out
     ekkrii  = to exclaim
     voc^igi = to vocalize
     esprimi = to express

There may be more idiomatic ways of describing these things, but
there seems to be no shortage of roots.

Sed, mi babiladas.....

  - Nick@Nite/Nicholas J. Rezmerski (Nikolaso)
    rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu - University of Minnesota
    Opinions are clearly mine, not the University of Minnesota's
    (So don't tell them what I said!)
