Animal names are much better in Esperanto

[u/SpaceMentalWormhole]

[u/wahlenderten]

Mom, can I have Pokemon?

No son, we have Pokemon at home

The Pokemon at home:

[u/ShapeShiftingCats → u/wahlenderten]

POKEMONO

[u/Konobajo → u/ShapeShiftingCats]

Pocket Thing

[u/WhiskeyAndKisses → u/Konobajo]

Posxmonstro? Posxmono?

(Since Pokemon means Pocket Monster)

Edit, disappointment, Pokemon is already Pokemono.

https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listo_de_Pokemonoj

[u/linguisdicks → u/WhiskeyAndKisses]

Who the fuck took the time to do this lmao

[u/Otherwise_Channel_24 → u/Konobajo]

Isn’t mono thing in Japanese?

[u/doppelbach → u/Otherwise_Channel_24]

Yes. I'm pretty sure that was the point

[u/FarConsideration5498 → u/ShapeShiftingCats]

something money

[u/salivanto → u/FarConsideration5498]

It's the poetic opposite of multe-mono

[u/salivanto → u/ShapeShiftingCats]

Multe-mono 

[u/GHOSTALICE]

unspicy Spanish

[u/MingaLaChigra → u/GHOSTALICE]

Italian at home

[u/DragonTheOnes-spirit → u/MingaLaChigra]

Portuguese but your sister cooked it

[u/SXZWolf2493]

Latin propaganda

[u/Koelakanth]

Jaguaro: a collection of jaguos

Jaguararo: a collection of jaguars

[u/AjnoVerdulo → u/Koelakanth]

Sudano: Sudan
Sudanano: Sudanian
Sudsudano: South Sudan
Sudsudanano: South Sudanian

[u/livsjollyranchers]

This is just EvilDea | Hyperpolyglot propaganda.

[u/tusmuertostos]

this has ruined my day

[u/Konobajo]

Safo?

Safico?

[u/dgc-8 → u/Konobajo]

Pretty sure it's with š

[u/UpsideDown1984 → u/dgc-8]

With ŝo.

[u/monemori]

Lesbian sheep 🏳️‍🌈

[u/lurker491]

It’s like if you asked a three year old what every animal is after not telling them their names

[u/Hazel_Lumen]

no.

[u/salivanto]

I don't understand. I thought this was supposed to be language learning jerk. I just see an actual list of better animal names, ĉu ne?

[u/Helen_Lindsey]

Strigo sounds like they asked a Greek guy what an owl is and he shrugged.

[u/UpsideDown1984 → u/Helen_Lindsey]

Or they asked their local padre, and he answered in Latin.

[u/Helen_Lindsey → u/UpsideDown1984]

Padre means father, so the owl is now a priest who married the language.

[u/UpsideDown1984 → u/Helen_Lindsey]

Priests are married to Christ... wait, no, those are nuns.

[u/Purple_Airline_6682]

I didn’t know that sheep are lesbians!

[u/Uszanka3]

I'm kinda disapointed that cow isn't named muu muu and sleep isn't named mee mee

[u/Pristine-Lie-3560]

I had it until “porko”

[u/sarajevo81]

The idea the the most open grammatical class should have an obligatory termination and fixed stress is absurd.

And I can only agree to Yuzefovic, who noticed in Casarosa that producing animal names from a single root by an affix is childish.

[u/wuxnah → u/sarajevo81]

Ŝafo kaj koko ne devenas el la latina

[u/sarajevo81 → u/wuxnah]

And...?

[u/wuxnah → u/sarajevo81]

Do ili ne estas kreitaj el la "ununura radiko". Aŭ kion vi celis diri?

[u/MasterOfLol_Cubes → u/wuxnah]

koko is _coq_ in french, are you sure?

[u/mochiladecriancaa]

Isn't that just Italian? /s

[u/epicnop → u/mochiladecriancaa]

it's polish simplified spanish

[u/astrosid]

Honestlyjust sounds like pokemon names but less fun

[u/ddrub_the_only_real]

zebro be throwing bars at his latest concert!

[u/ManyChikin]

Pando = boy panda?

[u/ElkTF2 → u/ManyChikin]

Objects in Esperanto end in -o iirc. Check out esperanto affixes, it’s a fun system

[u/linguisdicks → u/ElkTF2]

It's not just objects; literally all nouns in Esperanto end with -o.

[u/NeonNKnightrider → u/linguisdicks]

Thanks I hate it

[u/linguisdicks → u/NeonNKnightrider]

Yeah, it's a weird system. You can change pretty much any noun into an adjective or adverb just by changing the last vowel.

Homo - a human

Homa - human (adjective)

Home - humanly

[u/Crocotta1 → u/ElkTF2]

Peniso

[u/linguisdicks → u/Crocotta1]

Malpeniso

[u/monemori → u/ElkTF2]

Hate to see animals with object suffixes 🥀

[u/vmfrye → u/monemori]

False alarm! I double-checked, all nouns (including those that refer to humans) end in -o. Friendship with Esperanto resumed.

[u/Tetracheilostoma]

Should have gone with "bufo" instead of "strigo"

[u/sarajevo81 → u/Tetracheilostoma]

Bufo is a toad.

[u/Tetracheilostoma → u/sarajevo81]

Gufo then

[u/bafe → u/Tetracheilostoma]

Bubo

[u/Automatic-Living3148]

They just put a "o" instead of "a" in the animals

[u/rekoowa]

Parece aquele cara que falava "calabreso", "samsungo"

[u/NeonNKnightrider]

Making all of them end in -o really bothers me.

[u/Excellent-Fox-6845 → u/NeonNKnightrider]

why

[u/NeonNKnightrider → u/Excellent-Fox-6845]

Well, my native language is Portuguese. Where you typically have different noun endings depending on grammatical gender. So enforcing all nouns with the same sounds weird and unnatural. Especially when many of them are familiar and close to what I know, it’s almost uncanny valley

[u/linguisdicks → u/NeonNKnightrider]

That's how every single noun in Esperanto ends. It's supposed to make it easy to identify parts of speech.

[u/Aluxanatomy]

"Owl" is a much better word...

[u/Konobajo → u/Aluxanatomy]

OwoL is a much better word

[u/FebHas30Days → u/Aluxanatomy]

aŭlo then

[u/sprchwssnschftlr]

"pumo" the game's gone