From ragnarok@pobox.com Sun Sep 14 06:54:21 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 06:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.intrex.net ([209.42.192.250]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19yXKQ-00024e-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 06:54:14 -0700 Received: from craig [209.42.212.114] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.13) id A2E91838028A; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:53:45 -0400 From: "Craig" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: Text for beginners - chrestomathy part 1 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:53:15 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <160e66ce.66ce160e@imap.epfl.ch> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.212.114] X-archive-position: 6149 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ragnarok@pobox.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list >> I've actually started writing a short story. When it is finished >> and grammar >> checked, I intend to post it to the list; you are welcome to use it. >> However, it may wind up being a little challenging for your purposes. >> >Well, actually, although I'm really excited about la pexkerf .e le ci >cribe being accessible to beginners, it's grammar is not overly simple. >And it will likely end up being the easiest/shortest piece of the >collection. >The idea is to collect a good selection of lojbanic prose, original >wherever possible, rather than to have an introductory reader. I will >probably extract the vocabulary from every piece, though, as I find >constantly having to look unexpected words up to be very annoying. >A rough extimate for the size of a piece is 10000 words (very rough) - >how short is your short story going to be? It's about 700 so far; I expect it to be closer to 1100 when I finish. Much shorter than the cribe. -- .kreig.daniyl. "Somehow jokes are funnier after 3 minutes of belaboured explanation." -xod ragnarok@pobox.com teucer@bnomic.org