"Spegulo povas esti utila."
Translation:A mirror can be useful.
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Actually, it's a problem for normal languages as well.
As somebody else on Duolingo pointed out; in English, a singer sings and a painter paints, but a finger doesn't fing.
Yes, in this case arising from Zamenhof's aim to include recognizable words (German: Spiegel) Also *speg is not a root in itself as far as I can tell
"-ulo" was tripping me up as well. I'd think "spegelo" might have actually been a better choice, (but still pretty new at this, so I could be missing something) it's closer to the German (and Norwegian) and wouldn't cause the "-ulo" confusion.
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Good job translator XD
A police stops a blonde conductor and asks for her driving force. She asks: "What is this driving force?" "It's the document in which you have your photo." The blond girl looks for in the bag and finds a spider. She looks in it and thinks that it might be that. So she gives it to him, he looks into it and indulgently says: "You could immediately say that you also belong to police."
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"Good job" indeed…
To help beginners:
A policeman stops a blonde driver and asks for her driving licence.
She asks: "What is this driving licence thing?"
"It's the document on which you have your photo."
The blond girl searches in her handbag and finds a pocket mirror. She looks in it and thinks that it might be that. So she gives it to him, he looks into it and indulgently says: "You could have said at once that you also belong to the police."
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It might be - report it. Though my English-Esperanto dictionary gives "oportuna, faciluza" as a translations for "handy".
