Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CFC4P-0002WT-EC for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:43:05 -0700 Received: (qmail 20837 invoked by uid 534); 6 Oct 2004 13:43:04 -0000 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 07:43:04 -0600 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: getting my head about place structures Message-ID: <20041006134304.GB18003@miranda.org> References: <20041006081135.009D5706C0@hallie.shoalhaven.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041006081135.009D5706C0@hallie.shoalhaven.net.au> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-archive-position: 803 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 723 On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:11:35PM +1000, Glenn Alexander wrote: > Would it be possible to get hold of some lojban text with familiar > English words substituted for the lojban words? > > Possibly a dictionary-substitution-based machine translation. I read a > good deal of machine-translated Chinese anyway, so I am quite used to > it ;-) Hit the "Texts in Lojban" link on the Lojban web page. Then pull up the Lojban->English translator doohicky at http://www.lojban.org/jboski/ and paste in chunks of whatever text you've chosen. It'll spit it back out in pseudo-English with lots of grammatical markings in it. -- Jay Kominek Don't worry, Things have an annoying tendency to work out.