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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3hu7h4$dkn@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>:
>I doubt that this is really of general interest, but
>
>>    Incidentally, what do prostitutes say when they're propositioning you in
>> Esperanto?
>
>According to Reto Rossetti "^Cu vi ser^cas aferon?" is a possibility.
>(German prostitutes only ever said "Hallo" to me which was hardly
>worth learning German for.)
>
There are various possibilities, ranging from "Saluton, mia nomo estas 
Fifi, cxu vi deziras kunulinon?" all the way up to (or down to) "Cxu vi 
volas fiki?"

My experience in this is totally theoretical, of course.

>> as opposed to the way college graduates do? What do people say when they're
>> pausing in Esperanto? Ujo, perhaps. Or maybe ujon if one is pausing before a
>> direct object.
>
>"Nu" and "do" are common fillers. So are sounds like "e" or "em", but
>there doesn't seem to be a standard way of writing them.

Don't forget the ever-popular "tamen".


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