bonantagulo

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Esperanto

Etymology

bonan tagon (good day) +‎ -ulo (person)

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ulo
  • Hyphenation: bo‧nan‧ta‧gu‧lo

Noun

bonantagulo (accusative singular bonantagulon, plural bonantaguloj, accusative plural bonantagulojn)

  1. (slang, derogatory) someone whose Esperanto is limited to a few basic phrases like bonan tagon (good day)
    • 1999 June 29, Wolfram Diestel, “Kiom da E-parolantoj? - Kompleta tabelo (Reafisho)”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet):
      Eble ekzistas 1 miliono da bonantaguloj, sed tiuj normale ne komprenas flue parolatan Esperanton, ĉu?
      Maybe there are 1 million Esperanto noobs, but those normally do not understand fluently spoken Esperanto, do they?
    • 2007 October, Reinhard Haupenthal, “Evitema — pretertema”, in La Ondo de Esperanto, number 10 (156), page 15:
      Ĉu la kriterio estas la eternaj komencantoj kaj bonantaguloj?
      Are the eternal beginners and Esperanto punters the criterion?
    • 2010, Roman Dobrzyński, “Sedeso el Argedo aŭ la neceseja filozofio”, in Kontakto, number 3 (237), page 7:
      Ĉiuj jam konas min kaj afable salutas, kvankam grandprate ili estas nur “bonantaguloj”.
      All of them know me already and greet kindly, although they are for the greater part only nubs at Esperanto.

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