{"id":19,"date":"2009-04-02T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-04-02T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:52:12","slug":"some-esperanto-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/some-esperanto-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Esperanto Puns"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know you demonstrate mastery of a language when you can successfully make puns for it! One wit, upon observing the number of marriages that result from international meetings between Esperantists, decided to call the language “edz-peranto<\/strong>…” meaning “marriage broker!”<\/p>\n

A book exists called “Plena Gramatiko de Esperanto<\/strong>,” by two grammarians who sought to fully explain Zamenhof’s initial grammar. La Plena Gramatiko estas pli granda<\/strong>, so the clever punster Raymond Schwartz took to calling it “La Kilogramatiko!<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

The Esperanto word “ache<\/strong>” means “terribly.” For English speakers, this proves rather amusing when someone mentions how badly their head is hurting them…”Mia kapo dolorigas ache<\/strong>!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know you demonstrate mastery of a language when you can successfully make puns for it! One wit, upon observing the number of marriages that result from international meetings between Esperantists, decided to call the language “edz-peranto…” meaning “marriage broker!” A book exists called “Plena Gramatiko de Esperanto,” by two grammarians who sought to fully…<\/p>\n

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