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["Dale Gulledge" <dgulledge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bonvenon Prashanth,

Both of those terms are words that in English are currently in transition
from multi-word expressions to compound words.  In Esperanto, it makes
perfect sense to express them directly as compound words because that is
part of how Esperanto builds its vocabulary anyway.

Thus:

   multimedia = plur-medio = plurmedio
   play lists = lud-listoj = ludlistoj

You'll find that there are a lot of words that you can't find in most
dictionaries.  The roots of those words will be there though.  And you can
make sense out of the compound that way.  This isn't unique to translations
or to technical terms.  I've had it happen in conversations fairly
regularly.  Initially, it can seem a bit strange if your native language
doesn't form compound words as frequently and easily.  After a little while,
I got used to it.

You will find plurmedio in the Komputada
Leksikono<http://bertilow.com/div/komputada_leksikono/>.
It's an excellent starting point for finding existing Esperanto computing
terminology.

- Dale (Dejlo) Gulledge

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Prashanth Kumar <pacificprince@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am a Kubuntu user and I have been using the esperanto langugage pack
> for
> the past few weeks. Great work! I am still a beginner in esperanto and am
> hoping to contribute to the language team some day. However, I was
> wondering
> what dictionary you were using for translation of terms, as a lot of them
> (eg. plurmedio, ludlistoj etc.) do not seem to be defined in the common
> english-esperanto dictionaries that I can find. Any help towards this would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks and keep up the great work! Hope to join you
> guys some day.
>
> Regards,
> Prashanth
>
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