By admin | Published:
2009-03-07
The East-Central Illinois Esperanto Club meets every Thursday at the Espresso Royal across from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (1117 W Oregon St, Urbana) (map).
If you’d like to attend, but this time or location doesn’t work for you, let us know. We want to find a time that all interested people can attend.
If you’re in (or planning to be in) Champaign-Urbana and you speak Esperanto (or want to know more about it) send me a piece of e-mail–I’d like to meet you while you’re here.
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This site is available in English and in Esperanto.
The topic of the next (July 2nd) meeting will be a discussion of the short story “Marvirinstrato” by Tim Westover, the title story of his new short story collection.
You can download the book for free, so even people who haven’t bought a copy can participate.
If any beginners want to participate, we can get together in advance to read it as a group. Express interest either to the Esperanto_Champaign list or to info@ekoci.org.
Note the new day, time, and place for meetings Thursdays at the Espresso Royal across from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (1117 W Oregon St, Urbana) at 4:00 PM.
Our regular meeting will take place at the usual time and place ( 5:00 PM at the Foreign Language building).
Come! We’ll discuss the just-ended annual convention of Esperanto-USA.
Because of the end of the school year, and because of the Esperanto jarkunveno, we won’t meet next week. Instead, join us at the jarkunveno itself!
We still need to decide whether we’re going to try to meet over the summer. Check here for updates.
Despite final exams, we will meet this week at the usual time and place.
Agenda:
- Will we meet next week (just before the jarkunveno in St. Louis)?
- Will we meet over the summer?
- Conversation in Esperanto!
My brother just translated a brief excerpt from Hodgman’s book (at his request). Read all about it:
John Hodgman Spertulo Ankaŭ pri Esperanto (in Esperanto)
Note: Beginning today we’ll be meeting in a new room: 1046 (still in the Foreign Language Building). If that room’s occupied, we’ll just pick some nearby classroom to use instead.
During the last meeting, Darcy mentioned the word gufo as the Esperanto word for “owl,” which surprised me because I knew word for owl as strigo. So, I checked into the two words.
First, I checked the Universala Vortaro, to verify that both words really are fundamenta:
- strig’ hibou | owl | Eule | сова | sowa.
- guf’ grand-duc | owl | Uhu | филинъ | puchacz.
Then I checked this page on European names of owls. From that it’s clear that strigo is the general term and that gufo refers to the European Eagle Owl (and, presumably, other similar large owls with feather tufts at the ears).
Kvar semajna gufido.
As far as gufujoj goes (and here I’m speaking of the no-smoking, no-alcohol drinking spots for youth at Esperanto conferences), the Esperanto Wikipedio entry says that the term was chosen because the gufo is “active at night.” But I believe this picture shows the real reason.
Doesn’t that look just like a young Esperantist who’s had too much tea (and not enough booze)?
Photo by Judepics, used under a “Creative Commons” license.
At yesterday’s meeting, I suggested that we create a list of questions that people might ask at the jarkunveno. Questions like:
- What is your name?
- Where are you from?
- What do you do?
I asked everyone to send a couple of questions to the Esperanto_Champaign list. For next meeting I’ll make a list and we can practice answering and asking such questions. Hopefully, a bit of practice will make everyone more comfortable attending the jarkunveno
The rest of the hour we spent writing postcards to send to Simmon Keith Barney, letting him know that there is an audience for animated films in Esperanto. I’m hoping that he’ll get six postcards from group members–maybe more.
