"The eternal beginner begins eternally."
Translation:La eterna komencanto komencas eterne.
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It's not weird. "Eterna komencanto" is a set phrase in Esperanto and means a person who comes to meetings or conventions but never gets any better.
I think there's a 'thing' in the Esperanto community about Eternal Beginners...
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Think? Yep the 'eterne komencanto' is definitely a 'thing' in the wider community, though how you know if you are in danger of being one has yet to be fully explained
Well, in Duo it's when you can never test out of a lesson, no matter how often you try.
Or at least it seems that way.
"Eterna komencanto" is a set phrase in Esperanto and means a person who comes to meetings or conventions but never gets any better.
LOL! Esperanto has the funniest idioms; Edzperanto, volapukaĵo, krokodili, and more. Also this sentence reminded me of the word "bonantagulo," a word for someone who only learns basic Esperanto phrases.
I wrote a song about a bontagulo. It's called "La Bontagulo" and we performed it at NASK this year.
Why isn't this a case for Komenciĝi, as with "La festo povas komenciĝi"? Nothing is being directly acted upon.
The party is starting -> The party is coming into existence.
The beginner is beginning -> The beginner is beginning something... BRINGING something into existence.
There's a difference between what dinner is doing in "dinner is starting" to what I am doing when I say "and I am starting without you."
Is this because in both the case up top and the "starting without you" instances, a direct object can be inserted /said to be implied?
"The eternal beginner begins (their studies) eternally," and "I'm starting (dinner/to eat dinner) without you"?
What's a common way to say, "Thank you very much" in Esperanto? Dankegon?