From jorne@eubot.com Tue Jan 25 10:13:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: jorne@eubot.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71015 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao11.cox.net) (68.230.240.28) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [70.179.101.17]) by lakermmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20050125180933.MTZU1657.lakermmtao11.cox.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:09:33 -0500 Message-ID: <41F68B5B.5090103@eubot.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:09:31 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 68.230.240.28 From: Brian Eubanks Subject: Re: minimal lojban X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=211033105 X-Yahoo-Profile: eubanksb X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23714 For my computer-parsing experiments, I've been using a minimal Lojban. BRIVLA, LE/LO/LA, I, DU'U, KA, CU, numbers, and the pro-sumti. (it's soooo easy to parse) It can express about 90% of what I want to say. Something like that would make a good "reader" for kids to learn Lojban. (or adults!) [insert picture of the dog Spot] ko viska la spat. See Spot. [insert picture of Spot running] ko viska le du'u la spat. bajra See Spot run. mi'e la iuban --- xah lee wrote: >> is there a subset of lojban that's minimal and doesn't contain things >> like tanru inversions or sumti order rearrangements etc? > > Sure, why not? One very minimal lojban could consist of just BRIVLA, LE, PA, KOhA, CU, I and UI, for example. Or you can construct your minimal lojban by selecting the selmaho you consider most indispensible. mu'o mi'e xorxes