{"id":111,"date":"2009-12-28T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-12-28T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T18:40:23","slug":"new-decade-new-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/new-decade-new-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Decade, New Resolutions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to believe that 2009 is winding to a close. La miljaro<\/strong> (millennium, literally “thousand-year”<\/em>) has seen its first decade, and now we find ourselves in the thick of the 21st Century. We’re at a pretty momentous point in world history, I think, and it calls for some New Year’s Resolutions that are thorough enough to merit being made at the decade’s end.<\/p>\n

Be careful of the misleading Esperanto cognate rezolucio<\/strong>. While it does in fact mean “resolution,” it means the kind of resolution that a legislative body would pass – it is a motion, or a law, or some similar action. If you plan on making a resolution for la nova jaro<\/strong>, you want to use the word decideco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unlike rezolucio<\/strong>, the Esperanto term decideco<\/strong> refers to a decision, or a vow. It’s more appropriate for our purposes. Take a look at how the word is built. We see the infix -ec-,<\/strong> which addresses a noun form of an action. Then, there is the root decid-.<\/strong> You might have seen it as decidi<\/strong>, meaning “to decide.” As such, we have a word that means what we’re looking for – a decision, a thing we resolve to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to believe that 2009 is winding to a close. La miljaro (millennium, literally “thousand-year”) has seen its first decade, and now we find ourselves in the thick of the 21st Century. We’re at a pretty momentous point in world history, I think, and it calls for some New Year’s Resolutions that are thorough…<\/p>\n

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