From sentto-44114-23742-1106676825-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Tue Jan 25 10:14:25 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from n3a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com ([66.94.237.37]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CtVCk-0006zE-0u for lojban-in@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:14:18 -0800 Received: from [66.218.69.6] by n3.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Jan 2005 18:13:45 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.28] by mailer6.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Jan 2005 18:13:45 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email X-Sender: jorne@eubot.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71015 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao11.cox.net) (68.230.240.28) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [70.179.101.17]) by lakermmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20050125180933.MTZU1657.lakermmtao11.cox.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:09:33 -0500 Message-ID: <41F68B5B.5090103@eubot.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 68.230.240.28 From: Brian Eubanks X-Yahoo-Profile: eubanksb MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:09:31 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: minimal lojban Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 9333 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jorne@eubot.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list For my computer-parsing experiments, I've been using a minimal Lojban. BRIVLA, LE/LO/LA, I, DU'U, KA, CU, numbers, and the pro-sumti. (it's soooo easy to parse) It can express about 90% of what I want to say. Something like that would make a good "reader" for kids to learn Lojban. (or adults!) [insert picture of the dog Spot] ko viska la spat. See Spot. [insert picture of Spot running] ko viska le du'u la spat. bajra See Spot run. mi'e la iuban --- xah lee wrote: >> is there a subset of lojban that's minimal and doesn't contain things >> like tanru inversions or sumti order rearrangements etc? > > Sure, why not? One very minimal lojban could consist of just BRIVLA, LE, PA, KOhA, CU, I and UI, for example. Or you can construct your minimal lojban by selecting the selmaho you consider most indispensible. mu'o mi'e xorxes ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/TzSHvD/SOnJAA/79vVAA/GSaulB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: lojban-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/