X-Digest-Num: 121 Message-ID: <44114.121.685.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:35:36 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Subject: Lojban Mad-libs? X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 685 Content-Length: 1184 Lines: 29 Some has just suggested to me that Lojban writers could write "mad-libs" in Lojban. These are stories in which selected words are omitted, but labelled with a part of speech or other indicator as to what needs to be filled in. Someone else then supplies words of the indicated part of speech and the resulting story is read, random-sounding and usually funny. This sounds a little like what the random sentence generator produces, but the latter has everything random and not just selected words, so there is no cohesion to the story. But in any case the exercise could be useful in teaching vocabulary and grammar. Note that the clues might be "at least 4 place brivla" "number", and not "noun", "verb", "adjective" as in English Madlibs. Any writers out there? lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.