Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, May 26th, 2012
elna_blogoj	2:31a	QUIP: Why Esperanto keeps outliving its obituary-writers: http://esperanto-usa.org/en/content/quip-why-esperanto-keeps-outliving-its-obituary-writers Hope springs eternal. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
elna_blogoj	3:13a	Neniam kredas ĉio ke vi legas! http://esperanto-usa.org/en/content/neniam-kredas-%C4%89io-ke-vi-legas Much is made about the accuracy of Wikipedia, but normal books can be a challenge, especially if they're written for grade school students. I was looking at the third version of a book written in 2000, "The Euro for Europe" last week. It was meant to be a High School introduction to the Euro as it came into existence. One of the things it gave was a small history of attempts at combined European currency. The first illustration the book gave was "An Appeal by Esperanto users for a single currency in Europe." It showed a photograph of a completely readable postcard. Underneath the postcard it says, "Translated from Romanian, this reads:" It then gives an accurate English translation of the postcard. read more (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
elna_blogoj	12:46p	Broken English from native speakers http://esperanto-usa.org/en/content/broken-english-native-speakers Broken / Dumbed-down English is imposed on everyone by native speakers of English by those in the IT industry. Here are three examples: #1. restricted syntax in file names: You can’t name a document “John’s essay”, because the apostrophe is not allowed. You can reword it to “Essay of John”, but most people will simply opt for “John essay”. #2. forced plurals: e.g., “You have 1 emails.” #3. insistent use of “learn” to mean “find out” – e.g. “Learn more…” as an invitation to read further. Can anyone think of more examples? Regards, Mike Jones 19.May.2012 Taiyuan China (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
elna_blogoj	10:11p	just noticed an article on trio's Stanford Esperanto class from earlier this week http://esperanto-usa.org/en/content/just-noticed-article-trios-stanford-esperanto-class-earlier-week http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/05/14/1066219/ (Comment on this)
elna_blogoj	9:30p	Ĉu ekzistas tia aro de teatraĵetoj? http://esperanto-usa.org/en/content/%C4%89u-ekzistas-tia-aro-de-teatra%C4%B5etoj Mi serĉas aron de teatraĵetoj aranĝitaj (aŭ indeksitaj) laŭ la nombro de rolo. Mi imagas, ke mia loka grupo povas uzi ĝin, por rapide trovi teatraĵeton kun samnombro de rolo kiel membroj kiuj ĉeestas. Por nia uzo, ni preferus tre mallongajn teatraĵetojn (unu ĝis tri paĝoj, eble). Ĉu iu konas tia aro? (Comment on this)
Monday, May 14th, 2012
elna_blogoj	6:27a	Portalo al la Angla http://esperanto-usa.org/en/content/portalo-al-la-angla A Portal to English I have just begun a website, using the Weebly hosting service, for using Esperanto directly and exclusively to support the studying / teaching of English. The website is just a stub right now, of course, but it shows the idea. Here is the link (which I have also added at the end of the “ESL Done Right” subsection of my website of public domain materials): http://portalo-al-la-angla.weebly.com/ Regards, Mike Jones 14.May.2012 Taiyuan China (Comment on this)