Comments on: Marauder is a Jelly Doughnut

By: Blair

Blair — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:41:30 +0000

Yup. That’s exactly where the title came from.

Or, put another way:

Marauder estas ĵeleo benjeto!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:05:23 +0000

Ich ben ein Berliner also means that you’re a jelly doughnut! so you’re just following in the tradition of JFK

By: David Learn

David Learn — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:11:39 +0000

I was somewhat dismayed, perplexed and amused this afternoon to realize that after less than five weeks of study, my 8-year-old can communicate more in Esperanto than she can in Spanish, even though she’s studied that at school for the past three years. (That’s offset somewhat by the far smaller pool of people who can understand Esperanto in the first place, but still …)

So I shared this at a school board meeting Tuesday night — I’m on the board, and not just a gadfly — and asked “Is our Spanish program really that bad?”

Alas, we fear it is.

By: Blair

Blair — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:56:16 +0000

Hopefully it was just a bunch of sounds without any meaning.

But in Chinese, a word can have entirely different meanings depending on tone and whether the tone is rising or falling. It’s quite possible that instead of asking, “What is your name?” I was instead asking, “Are you a jelly doughnut?”

By: squish

squish — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:45:10 +0000

Uh oh, what’d you really say?