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Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:47:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: [lojban] jbocifnu report: 2.5 years
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> They have almost entirely stopped emitting it, though, unless I insist.

That's pretty normal. The solution is to act like you don't understand
them when they respond in English. Keep asking them to repeat
themselves (in Lojban) until they respond in Lojban.

At least, that's what my parents did to speak in Tamil at home, and it worked.

-Jey

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> The understand Lojban as well as they understand English, i.e. they
> can handle complex clauses like {xu do citka ba lo nu vimstizu
> pilno} and {.e'o ko cpacu le lumci bukpu noi trixe do}.  They have
> almost entirely stopped emitting it, though, unless I insist.  The
> only exception is when they don't have an adequate translation.  For
> example, {vanci sanmi} means "KFC and cookies", because I sometimes
> take them out for that in the evenings.
>
> Amusingly, F has, a couple of times now, referred to Lojban as "you
> funny words".
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