[lojban-beginners] Re: Alice In Wonderland

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

As long as we're horn tooting, several people have told me that LNC
is easy to read:

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=la+nicte+cadzu&bl

There is no English translation, but many people on the IRC channel
( http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojbanic+Forums&bl
) have read parts of it and can help.

-Robin

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:56:21AM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   Well, I think xorxes' Little Prince is very good (this was translated from
> the original French, not the English version, so there is some disagreement
> with the English), and at the risk of tooting my own horn, Terry the Tiger
> Visits the Big City (which does include an English translation), Not a Box,
> and the Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin (both of whose English
> version are widely available at public libraries).
> 
>                                      --gejyspa
> 
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > so for a newbie such as myself what text *would* you recommend?  At this
> > point I have the basic concepts of most of the grammar down and I think it's
> > mostly just a matter of seeing as much vocab as humanly possible.  I've been
> > reading some of the poetry on lojban.org but it's hard when there isn't an
> > english translation to go along with it to see if I understood it correctly.
> >
> > - Luke Bergen
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>>   Don;t be so sure.  While I hadn't read much of Alice, the very small
> >>> part I have read had at least one error -- "fange" used when "fengu" was
> >>> clearly meant.  I know that my Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin piece,
> >>> and my translation of Esther, and xorxes' Little Prince have been
> >>> extensively looked at by pairs of eyes other than the author and discussed,
> >>> so problems have hopefully been caught.
> >>>
> >>>                 --gejyspa
> >>
> >>
> >> (I should note that Esther is an extremely difficult read, and wouldn't
> >> recommend it as a beginner text)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >

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