"Kiom da surdaj laboristoj vi dungis?"

Translation: How many deaf workers did you hire?

[petporcupine]

"WHAT?!"

[Raztastic]

KION VI DIRIS?

[elseward]

Because none of them listen to me!

[AcerMapleB]

I accidentally made a typo - I know "surdaj" means deaf, but my finger slipped, and I wrote:

"How many dead workers did you hire?"

I think that is a more interesting question!

[camcamcam753]

Status: deceased.

Occupation: fertilizer.

[AlLMRX]

I had a similar slip and ended up with deal workers

(I assume auto correct was trying to be helpful)

[spuddy93]

I don't understand, aren't the workers being hired the direct object? Shouldn't it be "surdajn laboristrojn?"

[SquirlRat]

"surdaj laboristoj" follow the preposition "da", hence not taking the accusative -n

[spuddy93]

Thanks!

[DavidBock9]

My employer made a point of having a diverse workforce, but I cannot remember a single deaf coworker. That seems odd now that I think about it.

[tabi185471]

hiring people with disability (especially physical ones) often involves the need to physically adapt the workplace to acommodate (for want of a better word) them and it's easier for businesses to hire, say, people of different ethnic groups or sexual orientations without disability. true diversity takes more effort than tokenism.

[JP49X4]

What language is the source of 'dungi'?

[IamJustintime]

Ĝi venas el la germana lingvo. "dingen"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dungi#Esperanto

[Athenicuber]

Come on Bill! I told you not to hire any more deaf sound technicians!

[Autom_]

One of my best friends is a sound engineer who became deaf but continued working at the same radio station as transmission line engineer and equipment technician.

[Tebis11]

What would be "were you hiring"?

[BaloghTams19]

They will not complain about the noisy work conditions.