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There is a danger in importing sensitivities from our national cultures because in cases like this, sensitivity varies so much. I think nigrulo is fine - and if it's not fine, I would hope that people …

Ni diskutis tiun demandon dum NASK ĉi-jare. Mi konvinkiĝis pro la klarigo de Bertilo Wennergren ke la ĝusta vorto plej ofte estas "eblo", dum multege da esperantistoj, pro nacilingva influo, tro uzas …

You asked for short: Use si/sia when both are true the pronoun is not part of the subject. the pronoun refers to the subject of the verb. Regarding point 1: you'll never see la viro kaj sia edzin …

For better or worse, eklerni is a well-established expression. Personally, I've never had a problem with the logic of it. Ek- doesn't always imply suddenness - as with the examples you gave. One reas …

Kvankam is used to append information showing a cause or motive which doesn't have the usual result. mi vidas nenion, kvankam ĉio estas lumaZ; Tamen means simply "in spite of that". la knabo est …

Kioma is used to ask about anything which is an ordered sequence. Here are some examples of it being used other than to ask the time. Kaj li rememoris (kioman fojon en ĉi tiu jaro!) la maljustaĵojn …

While you will frequently hear the double accusative in spontaneous speech, it is not good Esperanto and should be avoided, especially in writing if you have even a half second to think about what you …

I'm curious about your choice of examples and learning materials. Google Translate is not a good source to learn from and two of the three examples you have about cats and houses are grammatically wro …

One thing we can say for sure is what vorto montra means. The Ekzercaro de la Fundamento de Esperanto also mentions vortojn montrajn. Se ni aldonas la literon “t”, ni ricevas vortojn montrajn: tia, t …

"But however" does seem odd, but nevertheless ...

Any word is viable as part of a compound. The only limitation is whether it makes sense. Even "la" could be used in a compound if it makes sense to do so. As a contrived example: senlaa frazo.

Looking at the "sekva" button on Lernu.net, I would say that this usage is OK because the noun is strongly implied. It means sekva paĝo or sekva alineo. …

My impression is that it's not used very much as a noun (esper-ant-o) - and a search in the Tekstaro shows that most of the usages of esperanto in lower case are actually references to Esperanto, not …

Thinking back to my own school days, I seem to recall that the passive voice is considered bad style even in English. (See what I did there?) When you can avoid the passive in Esperanto, it is a good …

I agree that statas ke is wrong. Asertas ke is good. Possible alternatives: diras indikas klarigas tekstas Benson (CEED) has aserti and diri. If you don't believe that theorems can speak, you c …