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From: "la cuncuxnas." <thatskotkid@gmail.com>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Gismu confusion
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coi rodo

I'm just learning more Lojban vocabulary, thanks to Logflash. Hopefully wit=
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more practice in translation efforts and just plain speaking/writing in=20
Lojban, I should get better quickly. Right now, though, I find myself=20
getting confused about which gismu means what in English. For an example,=
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that comic strip mentions {le grana} or "the rod/pole". I got {grana} mixed=
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up with {ganra}, however, and momentarily thought I had wandered into an=20
interestingly translated detective story, perhaps. But then, in trying to=
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figure out what "broad" was, since it obviously wasn't {grana}, I tried=20
{garna}, "rail". Now, I realize that loban (thankfully!) doesn't have any=
=20
homonyms or anything like that, but isn't it just as wonky to try to=20
navigate between words that are straight anagrams of one another? Perhaps=
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I'm just fumbling because my knowledge of vocabulary is as yet unrefined.

mu'omi'e cuncuxnas.

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coi rodo<br>
<br>
I'm just learning more Lojban vocabulary, thanks to Logflash.&nbsp;
Hopefully with more practice in translation efforts and just plain
speaking/writing in Lojban, I should get better quickly.&nbsp; Right
now, though, I find myself getting confused about which gismu means
what in English.&nbsp; For an example, that comic strip mentions {le
grana} or &quot;the rod/pole&quot;.&nbsp; I got {grana} mixed up with {ganr=
a},
however, and momentarily thought I had wandered into an interestingly
translated detective story, perhaps.&nbsp; But then, in trying to
figure out what &quot;broad&quot; was, since it obviously wasn't {grana}, I=
 tried
{garna}, &quot;rail&quot;.&nbsp; Now, I realize that loban (thankfully!) do=
esn't
have any homonyms or anything like that, but isn't it just as wonky to
try to navigate between words that are straight anagrams of one
another?&nbsp; Perhaps I'm just fumbling because my knowledge of
vocabulary is as yet unrefined.<br>
<br>
mu'omi'e cuncuxnas.<br>

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