From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Dec 12 11:50:49 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:50:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GuDdz-0006T7-3U for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:50:27 -0800 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.224]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GuDdq-0006Sx-OI for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:50:26 -0800 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so916441wra for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:50:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=B8mQ8cp0Haf3iH97a01m2hzCOmQaJWNH5wdd01oWUdnFJEfnALyhymRnCTD5Tf7SPgJrrD9NgV9H2Ewa94CINCDAvwf+fqt4sozoZHfdJgHsIMNbdaK8ffseU9MeCWVCMa2dy0i0U1oid8RaU1VvJ/xVgYbiirm9PsqHVO6TTts= Received: by 10.78.180.16 with SMTP id c16mr2502842huf.1165953015998; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.144.4 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:50:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:50:15 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] I've almost run out of cmavo to memorize MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 13342 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list This is an announcement that I have acheived a personal Lojban milestone. I am 77% through my flashcards of gismu and cmavo. I started this process in August 2004 on the Supermemo flashcard program for the Palm OS. I've been working consistently except for a setback of hardware failure a year ago. My old handheld and my desktop hard drive lost their data simultaneously, and I was so discouraged I didn't catch up for almost six months. Every day I commit five new words. I have not been doing them purely in order of usage frequency, because I wanted to learn more cmavo sooner; so I would zoom ahead in the frequency list and do the nearest two cmavo every day. I have been skipping over cmavo whose meaning I don't even know in English, and which I am unlikely to ever use given my ignorance of math and formal logic This week I ran out of cmavo which I wish to know. Eventually I'll learn the rest, but I would sooner learn the obscure gismu for "sulfur" or "Antarctica". After I'm done learning the gismu, I'll learn the obscure cmavo to the best of my understanding so that when someone speaks them to me I can know which field of specialist study they are probably talking about. But until then I question their immediate value to my practical fluency. They are listed below. Let me know if you recommend any of them as possessing an unforeseen usefulness to daily conversation in familiar contexts. -Eppcott _MATH EXPRESSIONS:_ na'u selbri to operator | jo'i array | fu'u unspecified operator me'o the mex | ni'e selbri to operand | pe'o fore mex operator lo'o end mex sumti | cu'a absolute value | ge'a null operator ju'u number base | ne'o factorial | va'a additive inverse si'i sigma summation | fu'a reverse Polish | ku'e end mex forethought ti'o mex precedence | re'a transpose | fe'a nth root of ri'o integral | nu'a operator to selbri | pa'i ratio sa'i matrix of columns | fa'i reciprocal of | de'o logarithm sa'o derivative | bi'e hi priority operator | pi'a matrix of rows | ma'o operand to operator | mo'e sumti to operand _______________________________________________________________ _KEYBOARD:_ tu'o null operand | na'a cancel shifts | zai select alphabet ru'o Cyrillic shift | tei composite lerfu | tau shift next lerfu ge'o Greek shift | jo'o Arabic shift | ka'o imaginary i ra'e repeating decimal | ma'u positive number | se'e character code lau punctuation mark | lo'a Lojban shift | ce'a font shift je'o Hebrew shift | foi end composite lerfu _______________________________________________________________ _SENTENCE STRUCTURE:_ | _CONNECTIVES:_ nu'i start fore termset | ke'i exclusive interval nu'u end fore termset | ga'o inclusive interval ce'e afterthought termset | jo'e union fu'e indicator scope | mi'i center-range fe'u end indicator scope | pi'u cross product To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.