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Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:57:46 -0800
Ben got a letter from a Linux Esperantist and sent it to me.
[Ben ricevis leteron de linuksto-Esperantisto kaj sendis gxin al mi.]
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com> Date: Dec 15, 2006 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [tspivey at pcdesk.net: Saluton de kanadio] To: Tyler Spivey <tspivey at pcdesk.net> On 12/15/06, Benjamin A. Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tyler Spivey <tspivey at pcdesk.net> > To: gazette at linuxgazette.net > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:58:46 -0800 > Subject: Saluton de kanadio > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Saluton. Mi trovis la volo paroli kun esperantistoj en issue43 de > linuxgazette. Mi estas blinda esperantisto kiu vivas en Kanadio, kaj mi > lernas Esperanton. Mian esperanton estas malbona, sed tio ne estas > grava. Mi uzas Vindozo, kaj Linukso kun Speakup, legi la > komputiloteksto. Bedauxrinde, kiam mi skribas programojn, ili ne estas > inda merdon. Mi esperas ke cxi tion mesagxon iras al esperantistoj cxe > la linuks-gazeto. > - - Tyler
[Translation:
Subject: Greetings from Canada
Hello. I got the urge to speak with Esperantists via issue 43 of Linux Gazette. I'm a blind Esperantist who lives in Canada, and I'm learning Esperanto. My Esperanto is bad but that doesn't matter. I use Windows, and Linux with Speakup, to read the computer text. Unfortunately, when I write programs, they aren't worth shit. I hope this message goes to Esperantists at Linux Gazette. --Tyler]
Saluton Tyler! Mi estas la sola Esperantisto el la stabanoj de Linuks-Gazeto. Mi gxojas, ke Speakup je Linukso funkcias por vi -- ecx Esperante! Mi tradukas historiojn en Esperanton por hobio... aux almenaux mi komencadas traduki ilin, sed malofte finas ilin pro la longa tempo necesa. Mia propra historio pri Linukso estas en jena artikolo: http://linuxgazette.net/120/orr.html
Ni penis establi Esperantan tradukon de LG sed malsukcesis pro la kvanto de laboro necesa. Estis du-tri artikoloj ie... mi forgesas kie.
[Hi Tyler! I'm the only Esperantist on the staff of LG. I'm glad that Speakup works for you on Linux -- even in Esperanto! I translate stories into Esperanto as a hobby, or at least I start to... I rarely finish due to the long time required. My own history with Linux is in this article: http://linuxgazette.net/120/orr.html
We tried to establish an Esperanto translation of LG but it failed due to the amount of labor necessary. There are two or three articles somewhere... I forget where.] Tyler, please address emails to The Answer Gang (tag at linuxgazette.net) so that we can publish them in the Mailbag, and perhaps you will have a conversation with other Linux Experantists.
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Tyler, bonvole adresi e-posxtojn al La Respondbando (tag at linuxgazette.net), por ke ni povos eldoni ilin en la Posxtsako (Mailbag). Eble vi renkontros/konversacios kun aliaj Esperanto-parolantaj linuksistoj tie. En kiu parto de Kanado vi logxas? Cxu via nacilingvo estas angla aux franca?
[Tyler, please address emails to The Answer Gang (tag at linuxgazette.net) so we can publish them in the Mailbag. Maybe you'll meet/converse with other Esperanto-speaking Linuxers there. Which part of Canada do you live in? Is your native language English or French?]
Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:56:07 -0800
[Please cc me on responses since I'm not subscribed to TAG.]
On 12/15/06, Tyler Spivey <tspivey at pcdesk.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jes, mi donas permeso eldoni. La restajxo de cxi tion mesagxon estas > en angla, cxar mi ne scias la Esperantajn vortojn. > Unfortunately, when writing Esperanto, my screen reader reads it back > using the english pronounciation rules. I've been trying to hook espeak > (http://espeak.sf.net) up with things so that I can press a button and > have it switch into esperanto-mode; but a unified environment for unix > hasn't been written yet, where everything is interconnected in the > spirit of /bin/ed (or edbrowse, which I use every day). What is the > proper translation of "can't code worth a shit"? I couldn't figure it > out. > I posted the following to the answer gang, but I'm posting it everywhere > else too. How do I get the cd-rom and floppy unit out of a VA Linux > FullON 2230? I haven't found any screws or obvious ways to do it.
I don't know about espeak or VA servers. "Can't code worth a shit" would literally be "Mia programado valoras fekon" (my programming is worth shit), or more likely "Mia programado fekas" (my programming shits/is shit).
The traditional Esperanto equivalent is -acx, the universal suffix for "bad quality/fucking/sucks/shoddy". So "mia programadacxo" (my bad-quality programming). From that you can derive "mia programado acxas" (my programming sucks). If you really want to say exactly how badly it sucks: "mia fekprogramado" (my shit programming), "mia programado fekas" (my programming shits), "mi programas feknenion" (I program shit-nothing), etc. Also useful is "hundinido!" (hint: it refers to a female dog's offspring). Or if you're really mad: "zamenhundenido!" (taking the name of Esperanto's founder in vain).