[lojban-beginners] Re: some questions

["Jared Angell" <angell.jared@gmail.com>]

It sounds to me like this language will not be practical until several of us congregate together and start speaking it and teaching it to kids.

As brilliant as it is I think its still a pipe dream.  Which is a shame because the amount of usefulness it posses to academia alone is beyond calculation!

On 10/21/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/20/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/20/07, Jared Angell <angell.jared@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Also...isn't keeping track of the place structures for every single word is
> > Lojban damn near impossible????
>
> Difficult perhaps, for some. But it has been proven to be possible.

I would like anyone who claims to have mastered the place structures
for every single gismu to tell me what the x3 of {dunku}, {xanka} and
{terpa} are. If they can answer correctly four or five tricky questions
like that, I might then believe it has been proven.

> Most gismu follow a predictable place-structure pattern so they don't
> have to all be memorized.

There are some regularities, yes, but the number of exceptions is high
enough that, at least in my case, the task of mastering place structures
becomes indeed damn near impossible.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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Jared

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