Mi scribas en Esperanto….

[estirose]

Along with the 1980s stuff, my novel seems to feature the language Esperanto, so I thought it would be nice if I had some practice?

For those who have for some reason never heard of the language, it’s a constructed language meant to make it easier for people to communicate. Most Esperanto speakers learned it as teens or adults – there are precious few people who have Esperanto as a native language.

The bit under the cut is a few sentences I wrote in Esperanto. I am still working on fluency, but I think at least some of my basics are sound. (Native speaker I am not.) It’s a bit rantish and has a four-letter word in the end.

Oh, and someone at AO3 noticed I was writing Esperanto fanfic (I always kept meaning to mention this to support, but I forgot….) and now I can select Esperanto as a language on that site! I’m probably the only Esperantist on the site, but still, I get more hits than I do on ffn for those stories, so I might as well just keep posting there.

La Senlaberecasekuro fako de la Aplica Evula Fako estas tre malhelpebla. Mi laboras por Aplica Evula Fako, kaj ili neniam desiras helpi nin. La plej freŝa afero estas rigardanta la internan telefonan numeron por senlaberecasekuro, ke ni usas transloki telefonvocantojn, kiu penas telefoni sed estas ne sukcese. Antaŭe, ni telefonis tiu fako en nia fako, kaj ni translokas ilian telefonvocon al ili. Nun, ili diris al ni, ke estas nova numero, ke ni usas transloki. Sed ili diris, ke ni ne povas havi la numeron! Kio la fiko estas tio?!? Ni translokas telefonvocantojn ĉar estas bona klientservo! Ni scias, ke ili estas multokupita, sed tio estas malĝentila!

Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.

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hi hi

[seabroth.livejournal.com]

I sort of ran across this post of yours by chance, it's fun to see! Damn, I really wish we had fandoms in common ;_;

Right now I'm on an editing spree - I've written like 2 fics in Esperanto and translated 2 or 3 others, but I did them back when I was a lot worse than I am now so I have to laugh at the fact that no one flamed me! The most curious thing is that I wrote one in Esperanto for a super tiny, dead fandom AND SOMEONE ACTUALLY REVIEWED AND BOOKMARKED IT! A normal fan saw it, knew that their friend knew Esperanto, and messaged their friend to get them to translate it for them! @.@ So I'm not gonna stop writing in it, lol. Maybe in ten more years we'll both have inspired lots of people... Because right now I'm on a quest to write more Esperanto fics than you!

Re: hi hi

[estirose]

Yaay! (Sorry about the late response; RL has been hitting me hard lately.)

At the rate I'm not writing anything right now, that will probably be true... in the short term, at least. *wry grin* I'll get back to writing esperantolingvo shortly.

[seabroth.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about being late, I'm not exactly sitting here on my toes hahah.

I also (unintentionally) quit writing fic for a long while, but then I started writing crackfic just out of anger for the fact that all the fics in certain new fandoms that I've joined have been incredibly awful and/or the authors have actually been reprimanding me about stuff I haven't even done yet! ("Nice fic! I think it'll inspire me to fill this request here" "IF YOU FILL THAT YOU'D BETTER NOT DO THIS OR THAT thing that isn't even mentioned in the prompt").

When I started writing for the sole sake of confusing or pissing some of these people off, or when I knew that literally anything I wrote even without trying would be better than what was already there (ex. the fandom having no fics to begin with), somehow the words just started pouring out of me and then that made working on other, serious fics easier... It's a tactic I recommend ; D

With Esperanto I do something else - I get excited about trying to come up with words that can't be easily translated into English, then I try to figure out how I can put them in a fic haha!!