On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Johan Pretorius <pretoriusjf@gmail.com&= gt; wrote:

doi skami ko jmina li re li re?

*sta= rts to pull apart the sentence you gave*

Oh wait, now I get it...=A0= hmmm.

I know this is skips over the scope of what you're asking, but if I= told the computer to "add 2+2 twelve times", I would expect it t= o know that I want feedback on the results of doing that.=A0 I wouldn't= expect to have to tell it explicitly that I want the results on the screen= - maybe there would be a setting in my program where I can indicate my pre= ference to have responses printed on the screen (as opposed to having them = spoken, or whatever).=A0 I think this is called thread-jacking though, so I= 'm going to shut up and go to bed now :-)

Regards,
Johan

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeon= us@gmail.com> wrote:

I was hoping maybe someone had an idea for a shorter way to say that....

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 a= t 8:49 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like you're 1/200th of the way th= ere to a lojbanic scripting language =3Dp

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus= @gmail.com> wrote:

Let's p= retend for the moment that it is possible to talk to a computer in Lojban a= nd be understood by it as a jbopre would understand.

Let us further pretend that we want to test this computer's respons= iveness. Say, add "2+2" 12 times and print the results on the mon= itor.

I came up wuth: {doi skami ko rapygau lonu makau sumji li re li re kei = li gai gi'e ciska lo jalge be la'edi'u lo vi vidni}.

Com= ments/suggestions?

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