[lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

You know, I did pretty much the same thing to learn lojban, except
that I got tired of the whole "looking up words repeatedly" thing, and
I wrote a program[1] to do nothing besides showing the text and then
showing definitions when you click on words. But either my program,
Lojgloss, or jbofi'e will translate lujvo it doesn't have explicit
definitions for. But I guess if you're set on not using a computer
then that won't work for you. I guess there's always the option of
printing out an alphabetized list of rafsi and their corresponding
valsi.

[1] http://pdf23ds.net/projects/lojgloss/lojgloss-1.4.zip

Chris Capel

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 13:31, peter hering <pjhering@gmail.com> wrote:
> The method I am using to learn lojban (neither recommending nor
> discouraging) is to read CLL cover to cover and to slowly read a lojban
> translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which I do somewhere other
> than seated in front of my computer.  I have with me a lojban-English
> dictionary, which I now see is rather out of date.  A regularly occurring
> problem is not being able to find the meaning of a lujvo in the dictionary.
> If the dictionary also contained entries for the rafsi it would at least
> give me a way to grasp the meaning.
>
> se tadji fa le nu mi cilre la lojban kei to aucu'i mi zmanei toi le nu mi
> tcidu le mulno gerna cukta gi'e masno fanva tcidu lu la alis. cizra je cinri
> zukte vi le selmancygu'e li'u ku ba'e na'eca'u le mi skami  .i mi pilno lo
> vlacku be le jbobau e le glibau be'o poi mi jimpe le du'u ke'a se cupra puzu
> ku'o  .i mi se nabmi le nu mi na zvafa'i le smuni lo lujvo ne'i vy  .iganai
> vy vasru loi rafsi gi vy sidju mi le nu jimpe le lujvo
>
> <<PLEASE!  Feel free to critique my lojban translations.  I would appreciate
> the feedback.>>
>
> The dictionaries available online are all very good. But it is for the
> reason described above that I pasted together the file I last attached.  I
> agree completely, Tom, that its size prevents one from casually printing off
> a copy.  (The folks at work would have serious objections and the copy store
> wants $40 US to do it, a sum I would only want to hand over perhaps once a
> year.)
>
> Tom Gysel wrote:
>
> Thanks all,
> I am really llooking for English to Lojban, so i got the one at jbovlaste,
> and also the one that Peter sent me (thank you Peter) that is older (1997).
> It seems these are complimentary to each other. Some words are in the one
> list and not in the other and vice versa. (e.g. cargo - different meanings
> in each list).
> So I will use them both.
>
>
> www.TomTao.be
>
> --- On Sat, 8/2/08, james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Dictionary
> To: to_mu1975@yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008, 4:23 PM
>
> I don't recall the link but I've attached one.
>
> 2008/8/2 Tom Gysel <to_mu1975@yahoo.com>
>>
>> Anyone know a good english-lojban dictionary I can download for printout?
>> I know the one at
>> http://members.fortunecity.com/jeroenkuiper/Linguistics/Lojban/Dictionary/h.html
>> but I don't look forward to copying and pasting the whole alfabet...
>> Tx
>> T
>>
>> Tom Gysel
>> Goudensterstraat 85
>> 9000 Gent
>> 0474 26 07 04
>> www.TomTao.be
>
>
>
>



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