yummy words

[jinian]

gwynyth made me very happy this morning by posting two links regarding a dictionary of morphemes. hattifattener responded to my bouncy email with a list of collective terms of animals. I didn't even know what an avocet was, and I'm really amused that the most common term for a group of three seems to be "a leash". (Fairly appropriate for some triads, I'm sure.)

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[l2g.livejournal.com]

"Fairly appropriate for some triads, I'm sure." <snicker>

I've been compulsively studying Esperanto over the past year. One thing that makes Esperanto easy, but at the same time a little more boring, is that words like collectives are all formed the same way.

Lion = leono
Pride of lions = leonaro

Goose = ansero
Gaggle of geese = anseraro

Hippopotamus = hipopotamo
Bloat of hippopotami = hipopotamaro

And so on...

[jinian.livejournal.com]

A lot of languages aren't as weird/fun as English. They're a lot easier to learn. :) If you don't mind my asking, why'd you choose Esperanto?

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[l2g.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of an intermediate language that is native to (practically) no one. Thus learning the language is a way to meet speakers of other languages halfway.