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I think you'll be alright, alive would be fisxon! Fisxajxon is a bit more like "object/stuff made of fish" rather than an actual fish (for lack of a better description!)
This particular sentence sounds very French to me. I can't wait until I become somewhat fluent and can speak sentences like this :)
Kuniklo is a rabbit. Kuniklaĵo is basically rabbit meat. When an animal is food you add that suffix.
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Oh, no! Cannibals! Run! It sounds a bit disrespectful to make stuff out of humans. I am hoping that I won't find that in the dictionaries.
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Oh no, poor cannibal aborigines! They wanted to describe their breakfast in Esperanto too!
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You reminded me of this fascinating group of people: http://www.vice.com/read/hanging-out-with-cannibals-georgia-rose-377
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Does it only work with animals? What if I eat paper or something that isn't food?
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En la mateno, ridanta, feliĉa, fiŝkapoj; en la vespero, flosantas en la supo...
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"Mi ŝatas fiŝaĵon en la supo." translates to "I like fish in the soup.".
This is because the soup you are talking about isn't necessarily fish soup, but some other type of soup with fish in it.
"I like fish soup." would most likely translate to "Mi ŝatas supo de fiŝo.".
"de" gives "supo" the property of "fiŝo", so "supo de fiŝo" literally translates to "soup of fish", which can be 'shortened' and made more easy to read as "fish soup".
Sure hope this clears things up for you!
Wouldn't it be "fisxajxa supo"? "Supo de fisxo" seems more like "the fish's soup".
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If using de, I think we would still use -aĵ- to denote fish meat and not a live fish, thus "Supo de fiŝaĵo."
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It's very difficult to pronounce fisxajxon. The sounds sx and jx are in the one word...
A good tip to learn to pronounce long and difficult words is to start at the end of the word and repeat it adding the next part of the word until you have mastered the entire word. It really helps on longer words.
For example: -on -aĵon fiŝaĵon
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So I guess "animal-ajxo" can kind of be thought of as a contraction of "viando de animal-o" or "animal-a viando"?
