"Mi fartas bone, ĉar mi havas anason."
Translation:I am doing well, because I have a duck.
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anaso* :/
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impact font is NOT acceptable i guess the joke was worth it and this was 2 years ago so im letting you off the hook
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I always check the comments section when I come across weird sentences like this. Haha.
Kiel oni diras "weird" en Esperanto?
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I use a made up word "malnormala" which literally translates "unnormal". I just attached the prefix "mal" (which reverses a word's meaning) to the Esperanto word for normal, "normala."
I am feeling well because I have a duck and I am doing well because I have a duck mean the same ducking thing!!
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um....that's the "joke" and why it's so popular with some esperantists
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Is this what Jimmy Neutron's father would say in Esperanto? O_O
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Alan Moore would agree if his 'March of the Sinister Ducks' song is anything to go by
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"I'm doing good" technically means "I'm doing an act of good" in English, not "I am doing well", which is grammatically the correct sentence.
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It's entirely possible to say "I'm good, thanks" or "I'm doing good, thanks". I tend to hear it more in American or Canadian settings but I hear it in the UK as well :)
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It is certainly possible and even common to say, "I'm good", but it is actually grammatically incorrect. I am in agreement with Atalina; good is an adjective. So, if I say, "I'm good", what I am saying is that I am morally upright and beneficent. Well is an adverb and describes HOW I am doing. Farti can be (more accurately) translated "to fare". So, mi fartas bone can be most succinctly translated as "I fare well". "Good" would not work there. (I realize no one would actually use the verb "fare", but this helps me.)
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Thank you. You made the obsessive compulsive editor inside me happy. :) And I also use the word "fare" to remember, and I think the first time I saw "fartas" I translated with the word "fare" and got it wrong. Way too out of date a word, I guess! x}
But what if I am doing well because I have duck? As in, I am eating a delicious plate of duck?
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Lots of people say it, but as with the word "good," it's not grammatically correct.
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This answers that question in the Dutch Duolingo course... "Why do you have a duck?" "I am doing well because I have a duck" Oh, okay.
Instead of submitting 'I am doing well, because I have a duck' , I accidentally submitted 'I am going well, because I have a f*ck'..
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Little known fact: Carrying a live duck is a mood booster, as this sentence so sagely points out. ;)
The joke is that mi FARTas bone cxar mi havas ANA(replace the A with a U)Son As in: i fart well because i have an anus
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havas anason means that he "has a duck" (owns, possesses) -- not that he "is having duck" (eats).
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Mi ne pensis ke mi vidu ĉi tiun frazon denove, tiel malfrue en la kurso. Mi feliĉas pri tio!
