From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Jan 30 05:01:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 30 Jan 2001 13:01:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 75102 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2001 13:01:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Jan 2001 13:01:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 Jan 2001 13:01:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0UD14b03033 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:01:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:01:03 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] UNIX Logflash? In-Reply-To: <20010129214017.A20526@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 5208 On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:25:09PM -0500, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > [flashcard] > > The program's author goes on to say: > > > > Then I can use `flashcard' to drill me on this file, either > > presenting me with the `dutch' field and letting me think of the > > `english' field, or vice versa. `flashcard' will not check my > > answers (unless I'm in multiple-choice mode); I must judge if I > > got the answer right or wrong, and hit `r' or `w' accordingly. > > That seems useless in the extreme. Is it fixable? > > -Robin Are you OK with the fact that you yourself judge if you were correct (presumably, after seeing the full card and the correct English translation)? Because, the reason I stopped using Logflash is that I had already memorized a good chunk of the vocabulary by concept and usage, not by keyword. Therefore, when presented with the word "cmavo", which I understood completely, I didn't remember the (imprecise) English keyword and got stuck repeating it 6 times more. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!