[lojban-beginners] Lojbanifying the Tranquility Calendar

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Monday, August 29, 2011, DataPacRat <datapacrat@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 29, 3:56 pm, Remo Dentato <rdent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On Friday, August 26, 2011, DataPacRat <datapac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It has been very useful for me. I understand now that I should study
>> better how dates work in lojban!
>>
>> I hope you can find some useful element in what I wrot!
>>
>> remod
>
> I am /very/ happy with what I read in your post, and I expect to adopt
> most of it. :) (Once I have a good set of words to use, I'll be
> running them through TengScribe to put them in the character's
> preferred orthography, and then, once I work out a decent
> presentation, putting up a webpage with the full calendar.)
>
> I just ran all the words you proposed through an online Lojbanic
> translator ( http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php ), to make sure
> they followed proper word-formation rules, but a few of them came up
> with errors.
>
>
>> * Armstrong Day      ->  {armstrongydj}   -> {ayrydy}
>> * Aldrin Day         ->  {aldrinydj}      -> {aylydy}
>
> For these two, the long form seems fine, but the short form doesn't
> quite seem to work. Fortunately, each of these days only occurs once
> every year (or every four years), so I can probably get away with just
> the long form, if need be.
>

The short form is wrong, sorry :( it should be {aburydy} and {abulydy}. My fault!
also the long form should end in "d" and no longer in "dj"

>
>> xippocratesym
>
> I'm not really sure why the translator rejected this one.
>

for the double "p", should be {xipokratesym} (note that the "c" was wrong too).



>> lavuasierym

for the initial "la". It is avoidable if you remember to always use "dotside" as in {.lavuasierym.} or change it in {lyvuasierym}
>
> The translator was trying to interpret 'la' separately from
> 'vuasierym', meaning this string isn't unambiguously a single word.
>

SorryI planned to check everything twice but since I sent the first email in error, I had to rush to complete the "right" one 

Let us know how your character comes out!

remod


>
> I'm now 95% towards my goal for this stage - now I just have to re-
> read the rules on Lojbannic word-formation to see if I can figure out
> how to fix the words. (Of course, if somebody wants to post fixes
> before I figure it out myself, I'm perfectly willing to work with
> that. :)  )
>
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