Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Thu, 27 Feb 92 00:35 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA22012; Wed, 26 Feb 92 22:29:43 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA15995; Wed, 26 Feb 92 22:08:40 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA19257; Wed, 26 Feb 92 22:05:57 EST Message-Id: <9202270305.AA19257@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 4161; Wed, 26 Feb 92 22:04:29 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 0281; Wed, 26 Feb 92 22:03:59 EST Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 12:28:31 PST Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!pyramid.com!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!fschulz Sender: Lojban list From: cbmvax!uunet!PYRAMID.COM!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!fschulz Subject: gismu learning X-To: lojban list To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Feb 27 00:35:49 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Thanks for the thesaurus doi John. I would like to have a more structured gismu list. Partition the words into categories. Within each category, sort by some mnemonic order. For example, say the color words are a category. Sort the colors by spectral or the order given in the resistor color codes. This is a poor example, but easy to explain. I want to get memory hooks connecting words in a category. The memory hook should not depend on the the representation of the word. Thus alphabetic sort by gismu or English keyboard is of no interest. The memory hook should be based only on the meaning of the words. It would be nice if the memory hook was culturally neutral. My list generating skills are extremely poor, so it would take me a long time to generate such a list. If anyone is interested in working on this project, send me mail. I would use the list to help me learn the lojban gismu set. -- Frank Schulz ( fschulz@pyramid.com )