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tsani and I independently came up with this test within a couple of
hours of each other yesterday (!?), and it seems like it helps
people grok what "I can speak Lojban" means.

Stick two people in two adjacent rooms; they can hear each other but
not see each other.  Present them with a co-operative puzzle to exit
the room.  Shoot them :) if they speak anything but Lojban.

People who can get out of the room "speak Lojban".  That doesn't
mean they're "fluent", whatever the hell that means. But they can
get shit done.

Now, here's the fun part: can you come up with a set of tasks that
we could implement on a couple of laptops so we could actually try
this at jbonunsla?

For bonus points, can you come up with tasks that have various
difficulty scales?  How about tasks that require something other
than simple directional instructions (i.e. "OK, now try the button
on the right")?

-Robin

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