{"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":"<p>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 &#8220;<strong>edz-peranto<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221; meaning &#8220;marriage broker!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A book exists called &#8220;<strong>Plena Gramatiko de Esperanto<\/strong>,&#8221; by two grammarians who sought to fully explain Zamenhof&#8217;s initial grammar. <strong>La Plena Gramatiko estas pli granda<\/strong>, so the clever punster Raymond Schwartz took to calling it &#8220;<strong>La Kilogramatiko!<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Esperanto word &#8220;<strong>ache<\/strong>&#8221; means &#8220;terribly.&#8221; For English speakers, this proves rather amusing when someone mentions how badly their head is hurting them&#8230;&#8221;<strong>Mia kapo dolorigas ache<\/strong>!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;edz-peranto&#8230;&#8221; meaning &#8220;marriage broker!&#8221; A book exists called &#8220;Plena Gramatiko de Esperanto,&#8221; by two grammarians who sought to fully&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/some-esperanto-puns\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}