{"id":473,"date":"2007-08-24T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/crocodiling\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T19:02:56","slug":"crocodiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Crocodiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To crocodile, or <em>krokodili<\/em>, means to speak one&#8217;s native language at a gathering of Esperantists, a practice generally frowned on by Esperantists, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/11460\/\">article<\/a> I found today.<\/p>\n<p>The article gives an interesting account of the history of Esperanto and the life of it&#8217;s inventor, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. For a while Zamenhof apparently considered trying to make Hebrew and\/or Yiddish into international languages, but later changed his mind as he considered a revival of Hebrew futile. He also urged Yiddish speakers to adopt the Cyrillic alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>The article also mentions two other interesting Esperanto words: <em>aligatori<\/em> (to alligator), which means to speak one\u2019s native language with someone speaking it as a second language, and  <em>kajmani<\/em> (to cayman), which means to converse in a language that&#8217;s native to neither speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To crocodile, or krokodili, means to speak one&#8217;s native language at a gathering of Esperantists, a practice generally frowned on by Esperantists, according to an article I found today. The article gives an interesting account of the history of Esperanto and the life of it&#8217;s inventor, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof. For a while Zamenhof apparently considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}