From gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Thu Sep 18 12:58:17 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap.epfl.ch ([128.178.50.10] ident=mailsrv) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1A04uk-0008FJ-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:58:06 -0700 Received: from imap.epfl.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap.epfl.ch (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 3 (built Mar 23 2001)) with ESMTP id <0HLF00NLME4R2K@imap.epfl.ch> for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:58:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [213.3.152.142] by imap.epfl.ch (mshttpd); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:58:03 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:58:03 +0200 From: GREGORY DYKE Subject: [lojban] Re: That's mostly for spanish readers To: lojban-list@lojban.org Message-id: <178dc1717a.1717a178dc@imap.epfl.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Webmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en X-archive-position: 6229 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:33:08PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > I don't know. How hard are these: > > > > eo'asi ko sajri la ljoabn > > > > mi kmala le zcrai these must be the two most common lojbanic phrases - I recognized the first one immediately - but I had a lot of trouble with kmala and zcrai > > ? I think we can't really test lojban for this until we have more > > fluency. I suspect that recognizing common lojban words won't be > > much harder than in other languages for someone truly fluent. I'd expect it to be harder, as lojban has a great many more anagrams than most languages - someone worked it all out on the wiki. (on the other hand, most of the cmavo are unambiguous according to the preserving first and last letter rules) Try this: la lnura cu ssmia lo clira bu'u le tansi ctaru mu'o