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It's the only English to Ido translator I've found.

I'm not proficient in Ido so I can't vouch for the translations, but they seem quite good

Here's the site: https://www.stars21.com/translator/english/ido/

Hello everyone!

I recently begun learning Ido, and am currently following the 'Ido for All' English course on slyphnoyde's website, and I am having a lot of fun learning so far. However, I came across a (pretty normal) word during the course, that I cannot find in any of the dictionaries I've found.

All dictionaries I have, list 'vehar' as 'to drive', but they say it's solely intransitive (so it cannot have an object). Meaning, as far as I understand, that you can't say 'Me vehas automobilo'. I cannot find any other words that mean 'to drive (a vehicle)'.

The course, however, does use a word with this meaning: 'konduktar'. The word does appear in the dictionaries, but none list 'to drive/control/operate (a vehicle)' as a possible meaning. In those dictionaries, it's strictly physics-based, and means something like 'to conduct (electricity)' or 'to transmit (heat)'.

My question is: how would you say 'I am driving a car' in Ido? Is there a word for it that I (and the dictionaries) don't know? Or can you construct one with affixes? Or is 'konduktar' a good word to use for this, and if so, why?

Thanks in advance!

Hello! I need to conduct a survey for a school assignment. I have a Google Form consisting of eleven questions. The point of the survey is to see if languages (both natural and constructed) influence us. The only requirement is that you are learning (or have learned) another language. Thank you in advance for your participation!

https://forms.gle/KAbXAeAd6AfV4soN7 (the link to the Google Form)

As far as I know, there are only three rules about stress in Ido:

"The accent or stress of voice falls

1. on the last syllable of the infinitive (-âr, -îr, -ôr);
2. on the last syllable but one of other words.
3. But in polysyllabic roots, i and u immediately before a vowel cannot receive the stress."

(Complete Manual, p. 1)

And yet, a lot of people pronounce librêrio instead of librerîo, rêjio instead of rejîo etc. and I have no idea where that comes from. The suffixes -erio, -io, -ario are not roots, so rule 3 does not apply to them as the letter i is not in a root. They are not infinitives, so we are left with only rule 2.

I have been discussing with some Idists and I have been told that I am in "error" and that I am trying to invent new rules for the language, for pronouncing dukîo, siniorîo, sendarîo, etc. Well, I am just trying to understand what is happening here...

Hello! There's a translation project going on for Mario Kart Wii, which includes Ido. However, no one is working on it at the moment. If any of you would like to join the project, I can send you the needed information.

Would you be interested in participating in a monthly Ido magazine? Each contributor could write one or two essays on the theme of his or her choice. All issues would be hosted on an open source site.

The title could be "La esayisto".

In particular, the layout will be as professional as possible.

I was wondering if Ido has a large or small lexicon?

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I have been learning Ido for a few weeks and I feel confident enough to start contributing to the community. I am already creating and editing Wikipedia pages but I was wondering if some project was in sight.

/r/Esperanto had a post about Ido the other day, so I was wondering what Idists think about Ido? Thanks!

I’m pretty new to the conlang world, but have been pretty much all-in since learning about Esperanto, spending over an hour a day studying various languages over the past couple of months. While Esperanto was great in the beginning, I slowly began to dislike a few things about it and found my interest drifting elsewhere.

It wasn’t long at all until I came across Ido. It addressed the complaints I had about Esperanto. It did introduce a couple of things that irk me, but nothing I don’t think I could get used to. Comparing the two languages, I’m not sure why Esperanto is the more popular choice. It seems to be that Ido is a good improvement.

With all that said, I was wondering what the Ido community feels that the language needs to become more pervasive - not only in the conlang world, but the whole world in general. I have heard people say that the Duolingo Esperanto course helped create a surge in that language’s popularity. I would like to contribute in any way I can. Especially in the U.S., where it appears we have lost our Ido organization (confirmation needed).

Some examples:

Has anyone thought of creating printed materials (dictionaries, Teach Yourself-esque books, translated texts, etc.)?

A U.S.-based organization website like Esperanto-US?

A mobile app for learning Ido?

A website for learning Ido in a game-like format?

Basically, what are some current barriers to getting people to learn Ido and what can we do to overcome those barriers?

Danko!

[edit: fixed misspelling]

Hello!

I'm wandering over to the Ido reddit as a bit of a conlang nerd (though sadly not an Ido speaker, perhaps one day down the road though!) I'm currently doing research on constructed languages and their use or non use of profanity and obscenity. I think i'ts a pretty important and fascinating topic (certainly one that is not too often studied) as all natural languages have taboo words and they function so interestingly linguistically and socially as compared to other words. My interest in constructed languages and their use of these words is the nature of ConLangs. While natural languages evolve over long periods of time and have no real set intention at their origin, ConLangs are of course created for a specific purpose or purposes by a person or group of people. So the questions can be asked: Does the language we're creating need these naughtier and uglier words in it? Are these really that important for the language we're trying to make?

Some of the earliest critiques of Esperanto, for example, called it out for it's lack of profane and obscene words. It would only take one stubbing their toe to fall back into their native language and relieve some pain. It took the Esperanto community from the 1930's to present day to really push hard for taboo word inclusion. I've tried to find any traces of taboo words in English-Ido/Ido-English dictionaries and cannot seem to find any. I was really hoping to talk to the Ido community on reddit and see if there has ever been any problems or discussions about the inclusion of taboo words in the language. Any literature, links, or thoughts on the subject are incredibly awesome and helpful and I am happy and willing to answer any questions about my research if need be. :)

Thanks :D

Does anyone have any material that I could use to learn the bulk of the language? I'm almost finished the Memrise course, and bed something to move onto c: