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Subject: [lojban] Re: lojban a word a day
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thanks for the link. I forgot.

what i really like for the a-word-a-day is for it to contain daily 
snippets of common, day-to-day basic words or phrases, or tiny snippets 
of lojban grammar.

for example, good morning, how are you, i'm hungry, where did she go, 
how much..., anything that one'd find in just about every foreign 
language guides for travel, where examples are based on human 
communication needs, instead of some logical structural didactical 
efficacies or generations.

Lojban's participants tend to be computer or language nerds in one way 
or another, and existing lojban materials are all like that, plus 
rampant spurious jargons and gratuitous chalking up to philosophy 
(usually non-professionally too), or some inane quotations about poetry 
or ludicrous "Chrestomathy" or some translations of big works. (and 
with respect to this, a good pure logical and mimimalistic exposition 
of lojban does not exist neither, the closest being "What Is Lojban?" 
Edited by Nick Nicholas, John Cowan 
(http://lojban.org/publications/level0.html). The Lojban Reference 
(http://lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar.html) is turgid.)

tiny snippet of lojban grammar can be things like how to say time, 
past/present/future pu/ca/ba, the general placeholder ma xu mo, tanru 
grouping cmavo, the short intro of the attitudinal issue, general 
ordinal... or i think covering cmavo words would be the same.

Learning lojban is a large task, and it would be nice if we can just 
learn or review a small snippet daily. I meant to do this by quoting a 
small selected paragraph from the references, but just haven't got 
around it. (i started to do the utterly needed sound recordings too but 
currently too busy.) As to adding example sentences along with word 
definition, i'm just witless for the task. (i don't know enough lojban 
to be able to give examples.)

many here know a lot more lojban than I. If you guys find this 
perspective interesting, i hope you guys will join, and expand the 
lojban literature.

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
  http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html


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On Dec 17, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:


...which is here - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban-valsi/

Mikevdg

xah lee wrote:

> I've made some changes to the a-word-a-day yahoo group. Please invite
> people to join. Suggestions are welcome.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> This is lojban a-word-a-day mailing list. Each day, a lojban word will
> be sent out to you. The purpose of this mailing list is for learning
> lojban words. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban If you don't
> know what lojban is.)
>
> Everyone is encouraged to send in the a-word-a-day. Here are the rules:
>
> * send in the word definition.
> * add an example with English translation if you can.
> * More is better, but please be sure that what you wrote is correct so
> that people can trust it without needing to double check.
>
>
>


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