Your Truly Truly Useless Skill

[txphred]

Generally, Esperanto is used at the European Society for Population Economics for internal rants. You might try contacting them.

[txphred]

English: There are hobbies more worthless than Esperanto.

Esperanto: Estas hobioj pli senvalorajaj ol Esperanto.

Klingon: 'op bel Qu' lo'laHbe' law' eSperanto lo'laHbe' puS.

{ This is my last post on Esperanto. I'll be devoting my time to translating Sanskrit into Esperanto. }

[rredmond]

More Klingon though, please!

[rredmond]

Another one: I've become a master a the Flow mobile app. I've completed all 8040 published Free Play levels, mostly without using hints, and still regularly do the daily and weekly puzzles. I haven't bothered to make the effort to do all levels in the related Flow Free Hexes and Flow Free Warps, but I'm pretty proficient with the daily puzzles in both.

Curses! Curiosity got the best of me, and I've now been sucked into the Flow as well

Yes. I have fallen into its seductive trap as well! Darn it to heck! (So fun!)

[Jazbees]

Once you figure out the patterns to look for, it becomes much easier.

[rredmond]

Once you figure out the patterns to look for, it becomes much easier.

True, and yet still fun.
For me once I get two or three flows into a game, then it's all good!

[vviera]

Is there anyone here who speaks, or who knows someone who speaks, fluent Esperanto?

I'm simply curious to know what motivated them. I'm guessing that those who learn it are already fluent in at least two languages already.

I don't know how fluent I am, but I taught myself Esperanto about 5 years ago. My motivation was just curiosity. Once around 2000 I was at a party in Tucson and they had on the old Esperanto film Incubus, starring William Shatner. (Yes!) I already knew Esperanto existed, but after that I was always more curious. I finally learned it when the module came out on duolingo. A lot of Esperantists are polyglots who just love languages. That's me, though I'm more polyglot-ish. I was lucky to be living in Seattle at the time, and there is an active group of Esperantists there, so I was able to attend events.

However, can I really say this is useless? Because I PL for Esperanto projects on LibriVox! I also met Esperantists in Paris and Sydney by just showing up at a meeting. Esperantists LOVE Esperantists. You can show up anywhere in the world at an Esperanto event, and they will be THRILLED to see you. Saluton! Bonvenon! It's an interesting community.

My current PL is Vojaĝo interne de mia ĉambro

[marisad6]

This discussion about Esperanto resonates with me. I’ve always been interested in languages, & when I was in college, I went through a period when I thought it might be fun to learn Esperanto, so I got an Esperanto book, but I never actually learned it, probably because I had no one to practice it with. (I did see the film Incubus years later, but it was long after my desire to learn Esperanto had passed, so I was watching the film mainly out of curiosity at that point.)

My top “useless” skill is probably logic games, the type you see on the LSAT, but you also may be able to find them in puzzle books at the grocery store. I personally don’t think they’re “useless,” but I wouldn’t recommend thinking you should go to law school just because you’re really good at logic puzzles!

[KevinS]

I do a pretty good Woody (the?) Woodpecker imitation.

[txphred]

What do you know?
LibriVox recording of Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation, Volume 1, by William W. Mann. Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater.

[Bookworm360]

Are we allowed to do recordings in conlangs?

[vviera]

Are we allowed to do recordings in conlangs?

Esperanto is a conlang, so that's one at least. What language are you thinking of?

[Bookworm360]

The fantasy ones

[annise]

Just find a published text that is clearly and legally not copyrighted in the USA and ask then

Anne

[IonaMuirgel2002]

I can impersonate Nellie Olson's (from the Little House on the Prairie TV show) voice to a T, but I personally cannot think of anything that it is useful for.