From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 19 08:57:34 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NseZp-0002l2-Sg for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:34 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NseZj-0002k8-2D for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:27 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:27 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: mass-uploading? Message-ID: <20100319155726.GH25330@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <702226df1003110646l1d8ab798y92984424ede3f350@mail.gmail.com> <20100311202532.GF10385@digitalkingdom.org> <702226df1003111235u2ddca307t6c5cdf3942248c7e@mail.gmail.com> <20100312014525.GG10385@digitalkingdom.org> <27513e551003111804k14914cc7h1a95e79b39bb476f@mail.gmail.com> <20100312022636.GI10385@digitalkingdom.org> <702226df1003120739o2d1219e4o66e9ff6cfe24874f@mail.gmail.com> <20100318204618.GW25330@digitalkingdom.org> <20100318210007.GX25330@digitalkingdom.org> <702226df1003190641j11668baay953af20149c65d94@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <702226df1003190641j11668baay953af20149c65d94@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 17315 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:41:17AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote: > > What about cmavo? �Just take the definitions as they currently are > > in the list? > > Still open. > > You could do that, certainly. It'd be nice to have individual > entries for each point on the scale for scalar cmavo (i.e. > {.ui}, {.uicai}, {.uinai}, eic.), but I think that it'd be too > cumbersome to do that, Well, {.ui} and {.uinai} are in the list already. The sai/cai/ru'e versions aren't, and that seems too many extra words to me. > and learners more than likely could figure it out. In short, I > think a striaght one to one transfer from the cmavo list would be > fine. Coo'. > The only (big) question in my mind is, how to order them? > Alphabetical is certainly not the way to do it, but both selma'o > order and usage order have their points. I don't see any advantage to selma'o order for flashcards at all; usage order is best for people trying to memorize vocabulary. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ 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.