From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 18 05:59:09 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjvMS-0001oc-On for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:59:09 -0700 Received: from mx-7.zoominternet.net ([24.154.1.26] helo=cm-1.zoominternet.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjvMP-0001oO-Q1 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:59:08 -0700 X-SpamGroup: 2000 X-CM-Cat: Undefined:Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=YIDOIVD-fD8A:10 a=FgkCMfv82XIA:10 a=yL5XVgb8E2+fLTqkepJTkw==:17 a=Wd63AYTWC5LLqcEFlwQA:9 a=YpXT2lPuVcWQpvPHmCLqQF61XSgA:4 a=CWfAmLVWKswA:10 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Received: from [24.154.1.44] ([24.154.1.44:35522] helo=pop-1.zoominternet.net) by mx-7.zoominternet.net (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.30 r(24168)) with ESMTP id C4/A5-10174-A00F0C94; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:58:50 -0400 Received: (qmail 20911 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2009 12:58:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.100]) ([24.154.82.11]) (envelope-sender ) by pop-1.zoominternet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Mar 2009 12:58:54 -0000 Message-Id: From: Robert Baruch To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <933B99C1-941B-45D3-B939-764C2CA6501F@zoominternet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Preliminary chapter 1 for Lojban learners Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:59:03 -0400 References: <8a20e9f70903171305o2712eebbr50b265d0825ca3e4@mail.gmail.com> <933B99C1-941B-45D3-B939-764C2CA6501F@zoominternet.net> X-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -9 X-Spam-Bar: - X-archive-position: 1443 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: autophile@zoominternet.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I've been busily working on improving the chapter, incorporating all the feedback so far. I tested the original chapter against someone, M, who had never seen constructed language, and is monolingual in English (with a smattering of Spanish). M had interpreted {zo'e} as being the preposition "in". While not correct, it is also logical given the input. I realized that errors of interpretation can and will occur during language acquisition, and this is just a natural part of the process, and hopefully future input would correct the problem. The last thing I want to do is overwhelm the reader by presenting the CLL in footnotes :) M did interpret everything else correctly :) la rab,rt.