 What's up guys Evildea here and tonight I want to speak to you guys about two things so first up I've been reading a book in Esperanto. Oh my god No, I actually read books every now and then I don't get around to doing it much But the book I've been reading is the translation of the first harry potter book into Esperanto Now this is only available as a soft copy because a little bit of history just for you guys So, you know A bunch of Esperantas went out and translate the first harry potter book completely into Esperanto It is really well done. There's a few little like just random typos here and there, but it's really really well done However rumor has it that they tried to then get it published through jk rolling and she or not She may be her publisher or whatever someone turned it down said no, it's not happening And then obviously they didn't want to lose all that and it appeared online So you can get the first book of harry potter in Esperanto completely translated Unfortunately, you can't get the rest of them now. I've read all the harry potter books I loved them. I read them when I was in school. Um, they're the only books. I really read in school So that just shows like they're pretty good books. So what I found is interesting I've been reading the um, Esperanto version and I already remember the English version because it's stuck with me So when I'm reading through it's actually assist already knowing the English version So I just wanted to suggest for you guys out there if you want to like get better at Esperanto Just go read a book obviously in Esperanto, but try and read one you've already read in your native language And there's a lot of books. It's not just harry potter, you know, the hobbit the whole works Yeah, go and read it then in Esperanto because you'll already know the storyline You already know the underlying meaning of everything and it just kind of assists you Getting through and it also helps you out when you like come across words that you don't know And then you have to jump to the dictionary, but you already know those words just from context So I just wanted to say that and there's a second thing Um, when I was reading the harry potter book in Esperanto, okay Uh, there's the word for mogul. Okay is mogul. Mogul. I love that word. How cool does that sound mogul? And then when I was reading it, I started thinking how cool would it be if we started calling all non-esperanto speakers? mogulay like Okay, that could be a slang word for non-esperanto speaker. He's such a mogul I love it. It's so evil But yeah, so let me guys Guys, let me know if you think that's cool and we'll we'll roll with that now another thing I wanted to speak to you guys about I've been reading the ling vai a despondue from zamenhof now Just so you guys know, um, I don't know how much you guys know about the history of Esperanto when Esperanto was first created About you know from the very first point where it was created up until like the fundamental de esperanto So about 1905 that time frame so 1887 to 1905 in between there. Um, there was a newsletter It's not really newsletter, but there was a letter. It was called la esperantisto and it was published in germany I forget what time frame it died off. I think it was in like 1896 or something I don't know. Don't like don't go on me as being fully correct in that go search it out yourself But what I wanted to speak about is zamenhof actually responded to common questions that were sent to him in letters and stuff like that Or sent to the um to the actual um la esperantisto the I guess the letter or whatever you want to call it And those responses were later on all like listed into this one book And then I use kind of as a secondary base for understanding the language In the early period of Esperanto a lot of people don't actually know the ling vai a despondue nowadays They don't really care about them and that's because a lot of them are actually outdated But it's cool from a historical perspective and there was actually two in here It's they're all categorized like by number and stuff. It's almost religious on how it's categorized. It's kind of crazy But anyway, um, there was two in here I thought would be quite interesting for you guys because this is a debate that pops up all the time And it's regarding how do you speak to people who don't consider themselves male or female? Okay, or I don't know how fully all works, but yeah, they they don't they don't fit within the um general social mold that we have going and in reading this response is kind of handy and I thought You know, I'm going to read this and I'll probably slap an English translation down there. So This is a response. It was actually I believe in it was in Um, la esperantisto and it was about the use of li instead of g. Okay, so li is he g is it So I'm just going to read what it says um Zamenhof was obviously responding to someone who previously wrote him a letter and he goes We scribes ke parolante pri infano vi usas li an statal g C'ar vi ne approbas la angla incutimon statigi infano in sur unu stupon kund bestoi kai obiektoi Contra la usado de li en tiai ocasoi Oni ne nion pols havi, Se la causa kiel ni kai anka la angla lingvo usas en tiai ocasoi g Estas ne tiai kiel vi pensas nek la lingvo Angla nek esperanto havis ian intenso malaltigi la indon de infano Amba lingvoi estas ja tiai gentilai kai i li diras vi ne sole al infanois en ec al bestoi kai al obiektoi La causa estas tutin natura secvo de la construa de amba dirita lingvoi En ciu lingvo, ciu voto havas tutin ne logicae definitan sekson Kai tiai usante porigi pronomon Oni prenas tiun kiu Respondas al agrammatica sekso de la voto Tiai la Francia diras peri infano Il la gormano diras es Sede en la lingvoi angla kai esperanto La voto havas nur sekson natura Kai tiai parolante peri infanoi bestoi kai obiektoi Kii es natura sekson ni ne zias Ni vole ne vole sen iya ofende intenso Usas pronomon mezon interi li kai shii La voto on ji Tiel same ni parolas ankao peri parasono Seteere parolante peri infano peri kiu Ni sias kai ji ne estas kanabino Au almenau ne estias kai ji estas kanabino Ni povas usi la voto on li So what he's saying there Okay, he's responding to someone And he's saying Look, what you can do Is in situations where you don't know the sex of someone Or of a person, okay You can use ji But he's also saying that Ji is actually halfway between li and shii So it's neutral So you can use ji when talking Neutrally about gender So the reason I'm pointing this out Is because Zamenhof actually responded to this Over 100 years ago In 1893 when these questions Start popping up about gender, okay So this here is It's basically like La lingua responde They aren't part of the fundamento of Esperano So it's not like the core of the language But these are very highly regarded, okay So you can basically point at this and say Look, I can use ji for a person Now there's actually another reference where he made So I just want to say this one as well So again, he's saying when you're talking about a person And you're saying And you're not indicating the gender of the person You can use ji So for all those people who are saying that Ji is only for, you know, objects, animals and babies It's actually incorrect Zamenhof himself said You can use it for people when you don't want to specify sex Okay Or through the pronoun So it's perfectly fine If you guys all go out there now And you use ji If you want to kind of get rid of this whole sexism issue that you see Now I just thought I wanted to point that out Because the lingua responde There's actually lots of really good stuff in his responses Some are like really good regarding grammar But also other things like interesting history rise And you can even see like just personal battles Between Zamenhof and other people It's really cool like history wise But anyway, I think I've gone overboard with this I just wanted to speak about those two things Because that's what's occupying my time In the Esperano community at the moment And I've just started randomly swimming again I don't know why I do this My hands just go into helicopter mode But that's it If you've liked this video Give it a like Share it around with your friends Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already And I'll see you in the next video And if you're not there I'll find you And I will kill you with something very soft Perhaps a pillow And as always I want to thank my Patreon supporters The most beautiful people in the world Like really They are on a whole different level of beauty And they are Tommy Linsley Shane Powers Sarah S.C. 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