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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:07:06 +0100
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban is not Vulcan or Borg
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:40:13 +1200, Michael van der Gulik
<mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:
> I know quite a few of the words, but its still a challenge to put them
> all together.

Heh. I rely a *lot* on the jbofihe for comprehension, and on the
gi'uste and the ma'oste for composition (and on jbofihe for checking
that what I wrote actually is grammatical and means roughly what I
intended). Yay jbofihe.

> Although I must say that its easier than using a foreign
> language - in Lojban you can just sit there and logically work out how a
> sentence should be put together rather than relying on a vast number of
> illogical idioms and irregular usages of words.

Plus you have jbofihe, which is better than most machine translation
-- yay unambiguous grammar.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>