"La bovino ne manĝas infanojn."

Translation: The cow does not eat children.

[UneJamKuqEZi]

English: You sure about that?
Esperanto: Ĉu vi certas pri tio?

[ErnestoPerales]

A lingot if you repost the image in Esperanto

[squelettus]

Mad Photoshop skills, eh? I did my best to avoid grammar mistakes but I still feel like there's something weird...

[ErnestoPerales]

I can't comment if the wording is right or wrong. Mi donas lingoton al vin.

[Athenicuber]

Cxu vi estas komencanto? Mi estas komencanto.

[squelettus]

Haha thanks :-)

[smoahts]

The only mistake I can see is you've got 'tagmangxo' where you should have 'vespermangxo' O:

[StephenH0]

Depends where you come from. Where I live "tagmangxo" is "dinner" and "vespermangxo" is "tea"

[AlexDalton314]

Where I come from dinner is tagmagxo (the midday meal) and vespermangxo (the evening meal) is "supper"

[JoelMacha]

One is day-meal and the other is evening-meal.

[4oh4]

"tagmanĝo" is lunch and "vespermanĝo" is dinner.

[Majklo_Blic]

I'm no expert, but I feel like a ĉu should be in there somewhere; possibly as "Do, ĉu popoloj kuiras..." And possibly that kuiri ought to be conjugated in the conditional (kuirus) instead.

Anyone with a better grasp of the language have an opinion (or better yet, a definitive statement) on this?

[FredCapp]

Fakte, vi ĝustas, laŭ mi. La ĉu pli bonas antaŭ la demand-marko. Estas ankaŭ aliaj eraroj en la frazo. Sed kial oni lernus?
Do, homoj kuiras kadrostadan bovaĵon por tagmanĝo, ĉu jes?
Ankaŭ bonas diri: Ĉu homoj…

Vidu tion kion mi diris antaŭ 9 monatoj.

[SaoirsePur1]

I agree. 'Do you eat' should be something like 'cxu vi mangxas?', but the wording of the English is a statement as a question, which is a less formal way of putting it and the same only slightly incorrect structure is as permissible in Esperanto as far as I am aware

[FredCapp]

I see what's weird.
My direct translation: So peoples are cooking beef barbecue for lunch? (Should be a question marker word in the original, I'll leave that to your l33t skilz) We cooked human barbecue for breakfast.

Did you intend for breakfast to be past but lunch present?

[ShrekB.Benson666]

NOONE GIVE THEM A LINGOT, KEEP IT AT 69

[jajaperson]

Agrabla.
Neniu donas pli lingotojn.

[craaash80]

How do you say "go vegan" in Esperanto?

[FredCapp]

Ĉu vegetaĵismu? Mi vere malcertas.

[SaoirsePur1]

vegetables + ism + inpereative. Interesting :-D

[SaoirsePur1]

Estu vegano. mi konsentas. The meme seems to be speaking for itself on that one

[FredCapp]

Mi tre plu ŝatas tiun ĉi frazeton.

[Numidix]

:)

[Cosmomica]

"No officer, I don't raise my cows to eat children."

[FredCapp]

That's what the llamas are for?

[likethree]

Carl...

[Dervius]

That is why Kuzco was never seen near children.... makes sense.

[JoeJScott]

...yet...

[yadwinder_gadari]

When I was little, I once dreamt that a giant cow was eating all my friends.

[GauravAgra16]

What was you doing when you were not dreaming ? :)

[DavidBock9]

What were you taking when you weren't dreaming?

[Eromeon]

You made me laugh. However, it's What were you...

[Lixulukus]

Sed, La infanoj manĝas la bovinon !

[Varad211396]

Actually laughed

[SaoirsePur1]

ĝi estas amuza, ĉar ĝi estas vera

[deactivated user]

That's reassuring.

[LeHerself]

Are you sure?

Oh, no, wait, in The Brothers Grimm it was the horse that ate the kid, wasn't it? The cow is just innocent and misunderstood ;)

[DMT1927]

Thanks for clearing that up Duolungo, great help

[SkeptiSkun]

..... I have several questions!

[Crafty_Carver]

What a disturbing reassurance... 0_0

[yimantuwingyai]

Good to know.

[TheCurlyPiper]

Finally, a phrase I can use in everyday conversation!

[Sanguine_Dreamer]

It might be a great conversation stopper. Or great dinner conversation over steaks.

[MardiMonkey]

That's what they want you to think....

[FredCapp]

Finfine, la vero estas konata!

(redakto: Kaj nun mi vidas ĉiuj el la fuŝoj, kiun mi ne vidis frue…)

[lojbanlorxu]

I actually had to tripletake on this one.

[Mr.Knight]

Good. That's...horrible.

[Pfiff]

Could this sentence also mean "Cows do not eat children"?

[Julian_L.]

That would be «Bovinoj ne manĝas infanojn».

[blessedwhitney]

Yes, it is "THE cow" does not eat chicken. Only specifying this particular definite cow. The other cows, well, we don't know about the other cows.

[Brohamerino]

Could "the cow" be referring to cows as a species?

[OliviaMaschinot]

No. We don't know what the rest of the species could be up to. I'm currently a child in a state full of cows. I must flee!

[phmUe]

According to The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar
commented by Don Harlow, " The main difference between the use of the definite article in Esperanto and in English is that in Esperanto the article, with a singular noun, may be used to indicate an entire class.

EXAMPLE
la leono estas danĝera besto = lions are dangerous animals"

So yes, I think it could mean "Cows do not eat children"

[FredCapp]

Mi trovis tiun:

[yummypi]

That would be "La bovino manĝas virojn."

[FredCapp]

Aŭ la Hom-manĝema bovino

[SaintMacrina]

The toothy cows of Skree do!

[mintyste]

That sounds alot like something a cow that definetly eats children would say...

[duovoordutch]

Good looks, cow.

Good looks.

[JimenaGonz17]

Or does it?

[SteveAwesome]

...or so the Cow would have you believe.

[lucas.meows]

Well that's disappointing. :/

[StefanoSolgreno]

Kiel reliefo.

[taketeisqueen]

Don't be so sure....

[MosesPeris]

What Duolingo ?

[TobyDaDankEngine]

Or does he? Du du duuuuuuuh

[TheWombatGuru]

Thank god he doesn't

[emiirose]

Well one could imagine

[GraceHertzler]

I wish I was able to convince my three-year-old nephew of that!

[_-__--_]

Can babies be used in this sentence?

[FredCapp]

It could… but the word for "baby" in Esperanto is bebo. One, however, could say "kids."

And I'm not enamored of the idea of feeding babies to cattle.

(Has flashbacks to an old "Far Side" cartoon)

[Oishlam]

In Soviet Russia cow eats you

[DavidBock9]

Hmm ... And now?

[Jessica744701]

Good to know

[Brian700204]

In English, a gender neutral, singular bovine animal is a bovid. So "The bovid does not eat children," should be allowed. Not that anyone is here to learn English.

[PrincessDi113178]

Saluton! Mi estas Jake,

I was eaten by a cow once.

[Spaltblob1]

Great horror movie plot "The Rise of the Carnivorous Cows"

[Varad211396]

"Armegeddon due to the Humanivorous Bovid" Directed by William Shakespeare circa 1997

[FredCapp]

Mi unue legis tiun kiel Directed by William Shatner.

[megafighter_x]

... That is strangely disturbing.

[Cody983734]

I know of at least 14 dead children who would disagree with you

[JakharrVin]

Good to know! I was worried.

[Bruno.Melo.1995]

Misericórdia

[TitoFelsto]

Sangikal arum illathathu bhagyam

[FredCapp]

Mi revenas al tiun ĉi paĝo post forlaso de du jaroj kaj ne estis malŝatata.

[EoghanBostock]

Ok I'm glad

[JordiFaxon]

GOOD RIDDANCE!

[dusics95]

O.O WHAT

[supercoolguy6666]

Werid but True!

[supercoolguy6666]

Did someone come up with this or did a computer do this

[miszletto]

Good cow :v

[jgoriasilva]

Thank god

[MikeSanMartin]

Back to sentence pronunciation- was "infanojn" difficult to hear/understand? or was it just me?

[alexobviously]

<h1>VEGANPROPAGANDA</h1>

[Varad211396]

JES MI FRIEND

[belridetulo]

Sed infanoj manĝas ŝin :(

[quadrin]

Phew.

[Imthebestlearner]

I used to fear that the cow would bite me when I was young

[vanz142028]

Wow

[deactivated user]

Are you sure?

[MonochromeHeart]

Probably for the best we dont' explore this one...

[Volohoc]

What a relief

[TumTumTickler]

sed mi fartas

[GrishaV]

... That we know of

[Nixinova]

Umm, ok

[Novian12]

Unless they are organic.

[IslaChambers]

Well thank God for that

[e.tan]

Mi mangas infanojn... ;)

[MitchialStones]

Well that's comforting.

[egnaldo22]

Sed la infanoj manĝas bovinojn!

[DanielleKr560190]

I sure hope it doesnt

[Carolyna678]

Well, I would HOPE so.

[olivier_goulet]

Thank god that cow doesnt eat children!

[KonradKond8]

XD

[WordsofMad]

This sentence stirred, and will stir still, a lot of interest. Haha

[Vitnim]

I actually have a real question... Is bovo not cow? Virbovo=bull, right? Does bovino not specifically mean female cow?

[pezguy]

So, does bovo mean bull?