Esperanto: A Complete and Comprehensive Grammar/Esperanto on the Web
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Esperanto on the Web
[edit | edit source]Because ASCII-only e-mail clients are still in use, work-arounds are often necessary on the Web. The iksa-sistemo (x-convention) is a way of writing Esperanto that is compatible with ASCII-only systems such as certain e-mail clients. Since Esperanto does not use the letter X in its native words, many Esperanto enthusiasts have taken to using the letter to signal a diacritical mark that is not available in 7-bit ASCII, placing the "x" after the letter that would have the diacritic in a Unicode-compliant application.
For example, the Section 3 of the Declaration of Boulogne reads in part:
- Ĉar la aŭtoro de la lingvo Esperanto tuj en la komenco rifuzis unu fojon por ĉiam ĉiujn personajn rajtojn kaj privilegiojn rilate tiun lingvon, tial Esperanto estas nenies propraĵo.
Using the x-convention to transmit the document over 7-bit ASCII e-mail, the excerpt would read:
- Cxar la auxtoro de la lingvo Esperanto tuj en la komenco rifuzis unu fojon por cxiam cxiujn personajn rajtojn kaj privilegiojn rilate tiun lingvon, tial Esperanto estas nenies proprajxo.
Just six mass replace operations would be necessary on either end.
External links
[edit | edit source]- The Wiki Esperanto Textbook
- Beginners Esperanto Forum
- The Esperanto Teacher, A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians at Project Gutenberg
- The Esperanto Book by Don Harlow
- Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village by Sylvan Zaft
- About Language Problems by Claude Piron
- The Esperanto Department at Wikiversity -- partially developed
- Lernu : Free multilingual website for learning Esperanto.
- www.Duolingo.com : Free multilingual website for learning Esperanto among other languages.
Jan 2020 --It seems that several of the links no longer work. Lernu and Duolingo do work.
Gutenberg.org has dozens of free downloadable Esperanto books -- Search "Esperanto."