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I think that meĥiko would be a better word for this country. it would folow the Spanish name for this Spanish speaking country and not the English one.
It seems they used the most international-sounding word. I think you'd agree that Sud-Koreio is far more recognisable in the world than native-derived Daehano.
in that case, it would be even better "mesxiko". it is closer to the original word in nahuatl language (mexihco).
esperantists are very conservative people mostly. i suggest rolling release version of esperanto for people who wants to fix errors of esperanto
Some mornings you wake up not able to speak at all, and you have to trawl through the forum to figure out what's wrong.
arch linux user!!! yes! pacman for life! down with aptitude! rolling release FTW.
That was exactly what I was thinking. :) Though I use Manjaro (which is Arch based).
While I'm not entirely sure, just considering how each of them seems to be used, I think it's a similar distinction to Menschen vs Leute in German; one can be used to refer to humanity as an entire species and can be translated as 'humans' as well as people, and the other more specifically maps to the word 'people'.
In other words, you may be able to use homoj in a "People (humans in general)" sense but personoj would be the equivalent of 'persons' in English, referring more to a specific grouping of humans rather than all of humanity. I'd still like someone else to either confirm or deny this though, as this is just my best guess (well, not an unfounded guess, but that's neither here nor there…)
Not sure but bumping this question because I think it is a good one and I am wondering what responses it might yield.
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Because of the preposition. Mi manĝas pomon means the same as An apple is eaten by me. Mi loĝas en Meksiko can't be translated as "Meksiko is lived by me".
"A lot of" is correct (because of the 'of'), so be sure to report it the next chance you get (if you didn't do so the first time this came up).
“a lot of” would be “multe da” rather than “multaj” (many) but I would report it nonetheless since that's a rather silly distinction imo
The -j indicates plurality, yet both "many" and "a lot" are also plural, so I'm not sure if that is it.
As not native English speaker i must say "I don't know". Multaj is an adjective, Multe is an adverb. I don't see difference between a lot and many, but I though it's not a mistake.
Yes, Polish. Maybe multaj is 'many' and multe: 'many of' And I haven't heard 'a lot ...'. Always 'a lot of'. But I really don't know is it difference or not.
And Donald the combover duck preaches: And woe to them if they come from M'urica
