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Unesma enskribo en ca jurnalo! [1st entry in this journal!]
12 years ago
Saluti, mea vidanti! Quale vi standas? Me esperas ke vi esas bone!
Hodie, ni esas dua dii ante Haloveno, quan es mea favorata tempo dil yaro! Me esperas partoprenor en festi fantasika en ca dio, e mem en la dii cirkondanta!
So, I've been studying the Ido language since about the start of August (though I'd known about it before), and it's been has been really fun & easy to learn! It's a reformed & improved version of Esperanto that was introduced in 1907 -- and here's what's been great about Ido overall:
• Its grammar, phonology, and lexicography are all regular, which is a lot of what makes it easy to learn.
• It uses the basic 26 letters without diacritics, so it can be typed with any keyboard.
• There are no word genders, and it's much more neutral (even if not perfectly so) about gender in general.
• It's a Romanic language, so my knowledge of Spanish has been helping me out a lot. It's also helped me become a bit more familiar with French and Italian, especially when looking up words in Ido.
The most time-consuming part has been studying the different affixes, but that's just like learning vocabulary, and they really expand on what one can do with the base words. Also, in both cases, it's pretty much learning and memorizing through long-term practice. Most everything I've been learning has been through IdoLinguo.co.uk, some through the Wikibook Easy Ido (even if it's incomplete), the Ido Wiktionary, and even the Ido for All book (warning: huge PDF; it's got a lot of examples for practice).
There are still things about Ido that I think could work better. The language hasn't changed much since 1922: as such, there are words that could be more respectful of race & orientation, and there's even one idea I have to make the optional gender affixes more neutral and less seemingly essentialist. Either way, that's all stuff that can be worked in, even if unofficially.
Overall, I've just been really impressed with the language -- and I'm taking every opportunity I can to practice it, with the aspiration of becoming fluent in it. I would really love to promote it as a bridge language, at the very least for international con-goers, if not for a greater number of people -- especially since it would be much easier to learn than the other languages off which it bases its vocabulary (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, & Russian).
By the way, the above says the following:
Salutations, my watchers! How are you all? I hope that you're all well!
Today, we're two days before Halloween, which is my favorite time of year! I hope to take part in fantastic festivities on that day, and even on the days surrounding!
I was originally planning on writing a big post about how I've been doing, my experiences with RMFC and NDK, the bowling events and local Howl'o'ween party, and in general, my status and thoughts on improving time management -- but, that desire to write a big post tended to make me feel overwhelmed, which was a big part of the reason I wouldn't actually get around to actually writing the post out. That, and I've learned people (myself included) tend not to read massive posts: smaller ones are much easier to digest.
So, hey, there's a 101-level tip for time management that I should already be putting into practice: breaking tasks down into smaller & more manageable ones. As such, I'll be leaving those experiences for future posts.
I will at least say, though: if you want to check out photos from the latest bowling meet and Howl'o'ween event, check out the photos in KodyWulf's gallery! He's an aspiring photographer and videographer who has awesomely volunteered to take photos at several of these events. I've faved a couple of myself in my own gallery.
And here's a vid he took & edited of the bowling meet -- I show up at about 3m19s as Diago (which I guess'll be his name?), and, uh, my collar seems to have sunk below my neckruff:
Direct YouTube link
Final thing: I'll be up in Boulder this Halloween! Aside from some annual volunteer activities that I take part in, I'll also be checking out Pearl Street Mall that evening -- at least before it gets too wild there. If you're going to be up there, write a comment or send me a note!
I'll also be up there the day prior for an internship-related event, and I figure it'll be worth checking Pearl Street Mall that evening as well.
Do, kun tota iti dicita -- til la sequanta tempo, me esperas ke vi havas Felica Haloveno!
[So, with all those things said -- until the next time, I hope that you all have a Happy Halloween!]
Hodie, ni esas dua dii ante Haloveno, quan es mea favorata tempo dil yaro! Me esperas partoprenor en festi fantasika en ca dio, e mem en la dii cirkondanta!
So, I've been studying the Ido language since about the start of August (though I'd known about it before), and it's been has been really fun & easy to learn! It's a reformed & improved version of Esperanto that was introduced in 1907 -- and here's what's been great about Ido overall:
• Its grammar, phonology, and lexicography are all regular, which is a lot of what makes it easy to learn.
• It uses the basic 26 letters without diacritics, so it can be typed with any keyboard.
• There are no word genders, and it's much more neutral (even if not perfectly so) about gender in general.
• It's a Romanic language, so my knowledge of Spanish has been helping me out a lot. It's also helped me become a bit more familiar with French and Italian, especially when looking up words in Ido.
The most time-consuming part has been studying the different affixes, but that's just like learning vocabulary, and they really expand on what one can do with the base words. Also, in both cases, it's pretty much learning and memorizing through long-term practice. Most everything I've been learning has been through IdoLinguo.co.uk, some through the Wikibook Easy Ido (even if it's incomplete), the Ido Wiktionary, and even the Ido for All book (warning: huge PDF; it's got a lot of examples for practice).
There are still things about Ido that I think could work better. The language hasn't changed much since 1922: as such, there are words that could be more respectful of race & orientation, and there's even one idea I have to make the optional gender affixes more neutral and less seemingly essentialist. Either way, that's all stuff that can be worked in, even if unofficially.
Overall, I've just been really impressed with the language -- and I'm taking every opportunity I can to practice it, with the aspiration of becoming fluent in it. I would really love to promote it as a bridge language, at the very least for international con-goers, if not for a greater number of people -- especially since it would be much easier to learn than the other languages off which it bases its vocabulary (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, & Russian).
By the way, the above says the following:
Salutations, my watchers! How are you all? I hope that you're all well!
Today, we're two days before Halloween, which is my favorite time of year! I hope to take part in fantastic festivities on that day, and even on the days surrounding!
I was originally planning on writing a big post about how I've been doing, my experiences with RMFC and NDK, the bowling events and local Howl'o'ween party, and in general, my status and thoughts on improving time management -- but, that desire to write a big post tended to make me feel overwhelmed, which was a big part of the reason I wouldn't actually get around to actually writing the post out. That, and I've learned people (myself included) tend not to read massive posts: smaller ones are much easier to digest.
So, hey, there's a 101-level tip for time management that I should already be putting into practice: breaking tasks down into smaller & more manageable ones. As such, I'll be leaving those experiences for future posts.
I will at least say, though: if you want to check out photos from the latest bowling meet and Howl'o'ween event, check out the photos in KodyWulf's gallery! He's an aspiring photographer and videographer who has awesomely volunteered to take photos at several of these events. I've faved a couple of myself in my own gallery.
And here's a vid he took & edited of the bowling meet -- I show up at about 3m19s as Diago (which I guess'll be his name?), and, uh, my collar seems to have sunk below my neckruff:
Direct YouTube link
Final thing: I'll be up in Boulder this Halloween! Aside from some annual volunteer activities that I take part in, I'll also be checking out Pearl Street Mall that evening -- at least before it gets too wild there. If you're going to be up there, write a comment or send me a note!
I'll also be up there the day prior for an internship-related event, and I figure it'll be worth checking Pearl Street Mall that evening as well.
Do, kun tota iti dicita -- til la sequanta tempo, me esperas ke vi havas Felica Haloveno!
[So, with all those things said -- until the next time, I hope that you all have a Happy Halloween!]
