From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Thu Apr 22 06:35:36 1999
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:35:36 -0400
From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Lojban Mad-libs?

Some has just suggested to me that Lojban writers could write "mad-libs" in
Lojban. These are stories in which selected words are omitted, but
labelled with a part of speech or other indicator as to what needs to be
filled in. Someone else then supplies words of the indicated part of
speech and the resulting story is read, random-sounding and usually funny.

This sounds a little like what the random sentence generator produces, but
the latter has everything random and not just selected words, so there is
no cohesion to the story. But in any case the exercise could be useful in
teaching vocabulary and grammar.

Note that the clues might be "at least 4 place brivla" "number", and not
"noun", "verb", "adjective" as in English Madlibs.

Any writers out there?

lojbab
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