[lojban-beginners] Re: Site for beginners was: vlatai and logflash

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> There's a standard sentence-glossing format among linguists: You write a
> sentence in the language being studied, then translate each morpheme, putting
> cmavo and their rafsi in caps. I'd like to see this done to Lojban sentences,
> or in Lojban to sentences of other languages. E.g.:
>
> i le nu se citka cu funca le tordu sastu'u lacpu
> SENT.SEP DEF EVENT PASS2 eat PRED.MARK luck.of DEF short grass-tube pull
> The event of being eaten is the luck of the short straw puller.
>
> On ?tiras à la courte paille pour savoir qui serait mangÃ.
> INDEF.PRON pull-PAST.2SING at/to DEF-FEM short-FEM straw for know-INF who
> be-COND-3SING eat-PP-MASC
> Someone pull the short straw to know who would be eaten.
>


  If I had seen those notations when I wanted to start learning
lojban, I'd have been out the revolving door so fast, the wind  would
have knocked over even la nikyge'u.  Think middle/junior high
schooler, not graduate student in linguistics, Pierre, to make things
more friendly.

                   --gejyspa