At 6:48 AM -0500 2/14/07, dhbailey wrote:
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 14.02.2007 dhbailey wrote:
So why wasn't Esperanto based on Hawaiian?
Johannes
Because it doesn't have a word for "Spam."
So what is Esperanto for Spam?
Johannes
They probably had hoped to avoid it and thus omitted it from the
language. :-)
One English-Esperanto dictionary web-site which boasts 15,500 terms
returned this result:
Result of search for "Spam": No matching entries found.
Oh well, that just proves my point that Esperanto will never succeed
in Hawaiian until it expands its vocabulary to include the word
spam. :-)
Let's not forget that the generic "spam" (unwanted communications)
comes from the very specifically trademarked "Spam" (specially
processed ham, of WW II fame, and still on store shelves), both of
which can be translated as "S**t!"
John
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