So, my partner would do this. One day, she was driving me home from work, and there was a period of extended silence between us, and we had this conversation:
Her: Whatcha thinkin’ about?
Me: What would the days of the French Revolutionary Calendar be if they were translated into Esperanto?
No, no, this is interesting. Now I’m actually curious. I don’t know enough about how Esperanto works–aside from knowing it’s supposed to be an ideal language–to have any rational idea.
The idea behind an auxiliary language is that everybody would only need to learn two languages: their native language and the auxiliary language. You’d talk to people in your own community in your native language and use the auxiliary to talk to foreigners. This helps to preserve language diversity while enabling international communication. To facilitate this, a good auxiliary language needs to be easy to learn and flexible enough to express a wide array of concepts. Esperanto is the most popular auxiliary language.
As it turns out, the Esperanto Wikipedia does have an article on the calendar. However, the day names are presented in French, so there is still no definitive answer to this particular question lmao
“I was wondering if people who lose lots of weight and have extra skin could have a kangaroo pouch made with their extra skin. Skin is easy to graft anywhere, so I don’t see why not… Buy would it get saggy and stretch out? Can you get a tendon implanted to keep it tight?”
put a drain in the bottom, that way when you shower you can wash the pouch and the water drains out. Towel dry, then throw a couple silica desiccant packs in and you’re good to go.
So, my partner would do this. One day, she was driving me home from work, and there was a period of extended silence between us, and we had this conversation:
Her: Whatcha thinkin’ about?
Me: What would the days of the French Revolutionary Calendar be if they were translated into Esperanto?
Her: …
Me: Well, you asked.
No, no, this is interesting. Now I’m actually curious. I don’t know enough about how Esperanto works–aside from knowing it’s supposed to be an ideal language–to have any rational idea.
The idea behind an auxiliary language is that everybody would only need to learn two languages: their native language and the auxiliary language. You’d talk to people in your own community in your native language and use the auxiliary to talk to foreigners. This helps to preserve language diversity while enabling international communication. To facilitate this, a good auxiliary language needs to be easy to learn and flexible enough to express a wide array of concepts. Esperanto is the most popular auxiliary language.
As it turns out, the Esperanto Wikipedia does have an article on the calendar. However, the day names are presented in French, so there is still no definitive answer to this particular question lmao
i hadn’t realized it was supposed to be auxiliary. Interesting.
As it stands, English ends up being one of the most widely used second languages, which is nuts because English is a fuckin’ nightmare to learn.
Exactly why my partner no longer asks me, either.
“I was wondering if people who lose lots of weight and have extra skin could have a kangaroo pouch made with their extra skin. Skin is easy to graft anywhere, so I don’t see why not… Buy would it get saggy and stretch out? Can you get a tendon implanted to keep it tight?”
Road trips are 100% podcasts now.
You could definitely make a marsupial, but I think the challenge would be keeping the pocket dry and fungus-free.
Also making sure there is enough bloodflow to the skin to keep it from just dying off.
put a drain in the bottom, that way when you shower you can wash the pouch and the water drains out. Towel dry, then throw a couple silica desiccant packs in and you’re good to go.
on my phone, researching
Oh! Let me know if you find anything. Evey time I ask a doctor they get weird about it.