[lojban-beginners] Re: Using lojban in SF

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:28:54PM -0400, DataPacRat wrote:
> For example, to tell a computer to turn on the lights and open
> something, would "Doi, Skami. I ko gusni. I ko kalri.", with the
> computer responding "Viho.", be reasonably close to Lojban?

I would suggest something like this:

"doi skami .i gau ko gusni .i gau ko kalri"

The advantages of this is that it more closely maps the stereotypical ellipticalness of the vocal commands given in space opera ("Computer! Lights! Open!"), and it's close to the way Lojban is used as a human-computer interface today.

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