Hi Rick,

> You have a background in English, French, German, Latin?
> Yup-- you're already most of the way to Esperantio (esperanto-land).

I 've read that the man who started Esperanto L. L. Zamenhf chose to take his
vocabulary from Romance and Germanic languages.. no wonder I can sometimes
make a little sense of it at least .. German is probably my weakest
though.. Most of my studies were in French and Latin.

> Anyway, to point:

> How to esperantize:
>"Bernie Sanders should take over the Democratic Primary and wipe out Hillary"
> --Janis Kracht

> There are some judgement calls in here, this is what I make of it:

> I'd copy the names verbatim, not esperantize them.
> Word order can be kept the same, no need here to rearrange it.

> In two places, two words of english can be replaced by one (compound) word of
> esperanto,
> in one place a word of english is replaced by two of esperanto.

> should          devus
> take over       ekregi             (ek: (suddenly?) begin    regi: to rule)
> the             la
> Democratic      Demokrata
> Primary         Primara Balotado   (balloting)
> and             kaj                (rhymes with English "sky")
> wipe out        forvisxi           (visxi for: wipe away)

>"sx" above, is a kludge for the (single) letter which looks like an "s" with a
> "^" over it.
> It's pronounced like english "sh".
> (UTF-8 has the esperanto characters, Fido Echoes don't).

Take care,
Janis

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