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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:01 pm 
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I actually understood some of that.

GO ME!

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Here's a more involved story in Esperanto:


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:27 am 
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Esperanto, lacking a natural place of origin, is the only language with its own flag and anthem:


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:53 am 
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Esperanto
Why don't you come to your senses?
Usin' different vowels for tenses
For so long now...


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:39 pm 
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Ah. Esperanto. Its what everyone spoke on Riverworld. :)

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:27 pm 
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Stephen Strange wrote:
Esperanto
Why don't you come to your senses?
Usin' different vowels for tenses
For so long now...

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:19 am 
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I am very embarrassed to admit that I rented "Incubus" a couple of months ago from Netflix. It was absolutely horrible! But, I did learn some Esperanto like "Me Menias! Me Menias!" (My Hands! My Hands!)

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:52 am 
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Elvis Costello's album Blood & Chocolate is notable for two things:

1) he credited himself in the liner notes as "Napoleon Dynamite;" and
2) said liner notes were in Esperanto.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:55 pm 
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I’ve seen it written down before, but never heard it until now. Sounds like the mutant offspring of an illicit mating between Spanish and Italian!

I’ve got to show this video to my mom. To think she’s been teaching Spanish all these years and never thought of using sock puppets!

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A vintage TV Guide page from the parallel Earth where Esperanto was successful:

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