From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 19 22:54:24 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Bmna3-0002ps-Rh for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:54:23 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:54:23 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: New beginner Message-ID: <20040720055423.GQ1391@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <1090274385.40fc44511fc8e@webmail.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1090274385.40fc44511fc8e@webmail.utoronto.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 669 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:59:45PM -0400, james.cook@utoronto.ca wrote: > Quoting melissa@fastanimals.com: > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Tristan Mc Leay wrote: > > > > > So could anyone help with a program that could randomly pop up > > > some vocab (from a limited but increasing set) at random intervals > > > on my Linux desktop? > > > > What a fun idea! I don't have time this week, but maybe I could > > cobble something up next week. Do you use a terminal, or a > > windowing system? > > I hacked together a small python script to test my vocabulary a couple > of weeks ago. I put all the words I want to know in a file, with each > line containing a lojban word, an English gloss-word, and a full > description (copied from the online dictionary). The program can quiz > English-to-Lojban or Lojban-to-English translation. It prints the > full line from the file after each answer, whether it was correct or > incorrect, but focuses on words that the user has trouble with. Does it require the user to type the word in, or rely on the user's beliefs about how well ey did? Allow me to strongly suggest the latter; getting too attached to the keywords has been show to be a bad idea. > If anyone is interested, I can post the python source. (Where's a > good place to post a 119-line file?) www.lojban.org/wiki/ > Whoever uses it will need to change a few file-names in the source; > I'll try to flag those. BTW, is there an easy way to obtain a > complete vocabulary file in any format? http://lojban.org/publications/wordlists.html Or you can get jbovlaste to generate you a dictionary, but that's not really ready for prime time yet. > And would there be any copyright problems if I posted the vocabulary > file I've compiled so far along with the program? They are all in the public domain. -Robin