From maggie_lucy@yahoo.co.uk Tue Aug 10 06:12:09 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web86907.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.13.59]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BuWQ2-00081c-UI for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:11:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20040810113004.23454.qmail@web86907.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [81.152.148.127] by web86907.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:30:04 BST Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:30:04 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Maggie=20Turner?= Subject: [lojban] Re: Yippee !!! .ui .ui .uisai To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-archive-position: 8395 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: maggie_lucy@yahoo.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:35:20PM +0000, Colin Wright wrote: > >>Secondly, I've just run a week long mathematics Summer School in which >>one of the challenges I set was to translate some lojban given some >>examples. Would the group be interested in seeing it? > > > Of course! What does it have to do with math summer school? > > >>Thirdly, I have an idea for a program to help beginners write in >>lojban. I think this would help with what I see as a major problem in >>lojban ... namely ... > > > I have no idea how that would work. > > >>Fourthly, which is the near absence of grammatically simple but >>semantically interesting text. If beginners could write more fluently >>then I believe they would gain the language more rapidly, and generate >>a body of text more suitable to beginning readers. > > > I'd be happy to write some simple stuff, as would others here, but I'd > need a topic or something. > > -Robin > When I first started learning Lojban, I found xod's rather strange fiction very useful, as each sentence was followed by a transliteration. I don't know if it would count as "grammatically simple" but it's worth having a look at, if it's in the archives somewhere. robin.tr ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com