Michael Farris wrote:
> I'd be interested in how IAL's deal with the specific vocabulary items
> mentioned here.
 
I couldn't get into the WIN because the library's closed. These are from my
memory, aided liberally by the IED and the CEID (concise dictionary). So it
will be a little incomplete. I kept the Esperanto for comparison.
 
Io non poteva accessar le WIN, proque le bibliotheca es clause. Istos es de mi
memoria, adjutate liberalmente per le IED e le CEID (dictionario concise).
Assi
il sera un poco incomplete. Io reteneva le esperanto pro comparation.
 
Tote le optime,
Mike R
 
> Possible 'international word' candidates (that pass the Chinese test):
 
          English                  Interlingua               Esperanto
 
>>        alleluia                 alleluia                  haleluja
>         bikini                   bikini                    bikino
>         card                     carta, cardo              karto, slipo
>         [chemical elements]      [probably in WIN?]        [Don Harlow
has a list]
>         chocolate                chocolate                 cxokolado
                                   [pronun. sho-ko-LA-te]
>         cocoa                    cacao                     kokao
>         curry                    cari                      kareo
>         czar/tsar                czar/tsar                 caro
>         golf                     golf                      golfo
>         jazz                     jazz                      jxazo
>         ninja                    ?ninja                    [oddly, I can't
                                   [probably the same        find a word for
                                   as the Japanese]          this]
ninjxo?-Mike R
>         OK                       OK, de accordo            jes, en ordo
                                                             [en ordo seems an
                                                             unhelpful
anglicism
                                                             to me]
>         sauna                    sauna                     sauxno
>         shock                    choc, shock (subst.)      sxoki, ?skuo
                                   choccar, shockar (vb.)
                                     [choc & choccar
                                     seem to be much
                                     more common
                                     pronun. shok, shoKAR]
>         T-shirt                  t-shirt                   ?cxemizo
>         yoga                     yoga                      jogo
>
>
> Words suggested that didn't pass the Chinese (or some other) test:
>
>         alcohol                  alcohol                   alkoholo
>         allergy                  allergia                  alergio
>         automobile               automobile                auxto,
auxtomibilo
                                   [au-to-MO-bi-le]
                                      also, auto = auto, car
 
>         banana                   banana                    banano
>         calculator               calculator                kalkulilo
>         catastrophe              catastrophe               katastrafo
>         chess                    chacos                    sxako
                                      chaco = a check
                                      chaco mat = checkmate
>         class                    classe                    klaso
(scholastic)
                                      > classification,      speco (type)
                                        classic, classico,
                                        etc.
                                      also, genere
                                        specie = specie(s)
                                        typo = type
>         climate                  climate                   klimato
>         cocktail                 cocktail                  koktelo
>         coffee                   caffe                     kafo
                                      > caffeina
>         computer                 computator                komputero
>         democracy                democratia                demokrasio
>         detective                detectivo                 detektivo
>         diskette                 dischetto                 disketo
                                                             [disko means both
                                                             the shape and the
                                                             device]
>         elephant                 elephante                 elefanto
>         fax                      ?fax                      [wells
dictionanary
                                                             doesn't have
it, but
                                                             i bet it's fakso]
>         football                 football (sport)          futbalo (sport)
                                   ballon (ball)             futballudo (ball)
>         garage                   garage                    garagxo, auxtejo
>         gas                      gas, gasolina             gaso
>         gay                      gai, allegre (cheerful)   goja (happy)
                                   gay (homosexual, adj.)    geja (homosexual)
                                   gayo
                                      (homosexual, subst.)
>         hygiene                  hygiene                   higieno
                                                             [which is I think
                                                             a hideous EO
word]
 
>         jeans                    blue-jeans                drelika pantolono
                                   ?jeans                    [surely there
must be
                                                             a single word
for it
                                                             somewhere]
>         jogging                  jogging                   troto
>         kangaroo                 kanguru                   kangaruo
>         karate                   karate                    karateo
>         mama (Japanese _haha_)   mamma                     panjo
                                   [probably mama also]
>         mass                     massa (body/corpore)      ?amaso
                                   missa (ecclesiast.)
                                   massa, multitude
                                     (a large number)
>         metal                    metallo                   metalo
>         microphone               microphono                mikrofono
>         muesli                   ?musli                    [can't find one,
>                                  [I'm assuming           but it's probably
                                   the ue is really        muzelio]
                                   an umlaut]
>         music                    musica                    muziko
>         organisation             organisation              organizo
(institution)
                                     (institution)
>         papa (Japanese _chichi_) papa                      pacxjo
>         planet                   planeta                   planedo
>         radio                    radio                     radio
>         rendez-vous              rendez-vous,              renkontejo
(place)
                                   appunctamento,            renkontado (act)
                                   incontro
>         rock (music)             rock                      [don't know, but
                                   musica rock               suggest
rokmuziko]
>         sex appeal               ? appello sexual          ?seksaltiro,
allogo
>         striptease               striptease                striptizo
>         sugar                    sucro                     sukero
>         symbol                   symbolo                   simbolo
>         taxi                     taxi                      taksio
>         tea                      the                       teo
>         television               television                televido
>         telephone                telephono                 telefono
>         theater                  theatro (all senses)      teatro (building)
                                   [I think I've seen
                                   teatro]
>         tiger                    tigre                     tigro
>         train                    traino                    trajno
                                   [also I like
                                   Kjell's treno]
 
>         tunnel                   tunnel                    tunelo
>         video                    video                     [can anyone
help me
                                                             with this one?]
>         violin                   violino                   ?violo
>         xerox                    xerox (subst.)            kserografio
                                   xerographar,              [does anyone use
                                   copiar per xerox          zerokso?]
                                      (verbo)
>         zoom (lens)              objectivo zoom            zomobjectivo
>
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