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- "Adamo mem konstruis nenion."
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I mean, fr tho, I like the goal of the esperanto movement as I understand it (spreading and making humans understand each other to end wars) but like, some people in there, like in every community but still, are so close-minded and seem so butthurt.
Like, it's okay to not speak perfectly and make mistakes people, and you should not reject anyone regardless of what language they can speak (looking at people calling others crocodiles) and what they have done in the past...
To me "Adam himself built nothing" is not ambiguous. It very clearly means that he didn't actually build anything. He may have had things named after him - or may have commissioned some buildings which other people built, but he didn't build them.
If we want to say that he had help, we're more likely to say "he didn't build it by himself."
Mem is generally an emphatic particle - sort of a verbal underlining. Yes, it does have the secondary meaning "by oneself without help from others" - but it's usually clear from the context. I wouldn't understand this sentence this way. If I wanted to express the idea that Adam did build things but not by himself, I would say something like:
- Adamo konstruis nenion sola.
- Adamo konstruis nenion sen helpo.
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The sentence that made the most sense to me (and was accepted) was: "Adam built nothing by himself"
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I wrote "Adamo himself hasn't built a thing" to avoid a double negative and that was marked wrong. I don't get it.