bonantagulo

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Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bonantaˈɡulo]
  • 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)
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      Maybe there are 1 million Esperanto noobs, but those normally do not understand fluently spoken Esperanto, do they?
    • 2007 October, Reinhard Haupenthal, "Evitema — pretertema", La Ondo de Esperanto, no. 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", Kontakto, no. 3 (237), page 7.
      Ĉiuj jam konas min kaj afable salutas, kvankam grandprate[sic] 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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