From lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Mon Oct 21 18:18:07 1996 Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA16395 ; Mon, 21 Oct 96 18:18:04 BST Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk id 845647680:25682:1; Fri, 18 Oct 96 15:08:00 BST Received: from cunyvm.cuny.edu ([128.228.1.2]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa23706; 18 Oct 96 15:03 BST Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 7627; Fri, 18 Oct 96 10:02:49 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5368; Fri, 18 Oct 96 10:02:34 EDT Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:00:26 -0400 Reply-To: "Robert J. Chassell" Sender: Lojban list From: "Robert J. Chassell" Subject: Re: A couple of questions... X-To: lagdemon@sprynet.com X-cc: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list LOJBAN In-Reply-To: <199610180811.BAA19679@m7.sprynet.com> (lagdemon@sprynet.com) Message-ID: <845647393.23706.0@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Status: R ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- Sender: Lojban list Poster: "Robert J. Chassell" Subject: Re: A couple of questions... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... I'm not sure where I should begin in a study of Lojban. Should I use LogFlash to start getting a handle on some of the vocabulary or should I concentrate on other more technical languages...Any suggestions? :-) For all its dull name, the `reference grammar' is interesting and not hard to read. John Cowan is writing it -- the current draft is very close to final. Start with the first chapter (an introduction). I find chapters 10. and 13 especially interesting. You can down load the chapters from: ftp://ftp.access.digex.net/pub/access/lojbab/draft-reference-grammar/ Here is a description of each chapter from ftp://ftp.access.digex.net/pub/access/lojbab/README This directory contains the current draft reference grammar. This book is very close to completion, and should be available by the middle of 1997. Only the indexing needs to be finished. Anyone interested is urged to read the book and send comments to John Cowan at . Here are the individual chapters in plain-text format, with some scattered HTML and TeX markup: 1. Lojban As We Mangle It In Lojbanistan: About This Book (intro.txt) 2. A Quick Tour of Lojban Grammar, With Diagrams (qtour.txt) 3. The Hills Are Alive With The Sounds Of Lojban (phon.txt) 4. The Shape Of Words To Come: Lojban Morphology (morphy.txt) 5. "Pretty Little Girls' School": The Structure Of Lojban selbri (plgs.txt) 6. To Speak Of Many Things: The Lojban sumti (sumti.txt) 7. Brevity Is The Soul Of Language: Pro-sumti And Pro-bridi (pro.txt) 8. Relative Clauses, Which Make sumti Even More Complicated (rel.txt) 9. To Boston Via The Road Go I, With An Excursion Into The Land Of Modals (places.txt) 10. Imaginary Journeys: The Lojban Space/Time Tense System (tense.txt) 11. Events, Qualities, Quantities, And Other Vague Words: On Lojban Abstraction (abstract.txt) 12. Dog House And White House: Determining lujvo Place Structures (jvoplace.txt) 13. Oooh! Arrgh! Ugh! Yecch! Attitudinal and Emotional Indicators (attitud.txt) 14. If Wishes Were Horses: The Lojban Connective System (conn.txt) 15. "No" Problems: On Lojban Negation (negation.txt) 16. "Who Did You Pass On The Road? Nobody": Lojban And Logic as yet unnumbered chapters: As Easy As A-B-C? The Lojban Letteral System And Its Uses (lerfu.txt) lojbau mekso: Mathematical Expressions in Lojban (mex.txt) Putting It All Together: Notes on the Structure of Lojban Texts (text.txt) A Catalogue of selma'o (catalog.txt) The entire draft is available in a ZIP archive (refgram.zip) _____________________________________________________________ If you use Emacs, I can send you a flashcard program written in Emacs Lisp. This works on a wider variety of machines than LogFlash.