From james.cook@utoronto.ca Mon Jul 19 15:00:23 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bureau8.utcc.utoronto.ca ([128.100.132.18]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BmgBK-0003qT-Sd for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:00:23 -0700 Received: from webmail5.ns.utoronto.ca ([128.100.132.37] EHLO webmail5.ns.utoronto.ca ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 44303]) by bureau8.utcc.utoronto.ca with ESMTP id <25097-22130>; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:00:03 -0400 Received: by webmail5.ns.utoronto.ca id <873016-1279>; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:59:49 -0400 Received: from 65.94.97.172 ( [65.94.97.172]) as user cookjame@mailbox167.utcc.utoronto.ca by webmail.utoronto.ca with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:59:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1090274385.40fc44511fc8e@webmail.utoronto.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:59:45 -0400 From: james.cook@utoronto.ca To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: New beginner References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-archive-position: 661 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: james.cook@utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners 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? > > -- > mylisys XOLynswyrt > mi tadni la lojban > 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. If anyone is interested, I can post the python source. (Where's a good place to post a 119-line file?) 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? And would there be any copyright problems if I posted the vocabulary file I've compiled so far along with the program? - James