[lojban-beginners] Re: Grammar textbooks on Palm handheld?

[Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net>]

Thanks! Please send it. I'll install iSilo tonight.

I enjoy being able to express so many thoughts in Lojban so soon, even if I'm very slow and occasionally less than confident. Despite the slowness of not being able to just click a word to go to its flashcard, this is still the convenient dictionary and translation aid that I've been looking for for so long. I've been having some thoughts about Lojban tools for years now, but I've been waiting until I knew the language better before bringing them out. It seems to me that someday we should try to offer for sale a complete integrated computer-assisted learning package on a self-installing CD. One wants to start learning the language, one buys this single item and is good to go. It could involve cross-searchable integrated software. Flashcards, a dictionary, a grammar reference, and a parser-glosser. Click any word, anywhere, to get a drop-down-menu to look up/enter/commit/gloss that word. Is that a beautiful dream or what?

I suppose there are some who would demand we wait until the lujvo are set in stone so we could include them. Well I enjoy Lojban despite not knowing lujvo yet. Only cmavo and gismu. In that light, the controversy over whether to wait to publish a dictionary, or this or that, seems silly. My experience is an example that you can put Lojban in the hands of John Q Public with what there already is, and that would not be a waste of time at all.
-Matt

lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:23:22PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
>> This is my fifty-fifth day of using Supermemo and I know the fifty
>> most common gismu and almost a hundred and thirty of the most
>> common cmavo. 
>Excellent!
>> I don't commit words until I think I know how to use them
>> grammatically. I know enough grammar to speak passable beginning
>> Lojban using articles, plain gismu, simple tanru and the easiest
>> pro-sumtis, but not the fiddly bits. 
>Still, that's very cool.
>> I know an application exists somewhere that converts text files
>> into Palm Doc, since I've used it before, but I no longer have it.
>> Does any grammar textbook exist as an e-book in Palm Doc format? I
>> could really use one.
>I've put the CLL on my Palm using iSilo, which will take HTML and
>turn it into a format for offline viewing.  I can send you that if
>you want, but you'll need iSilo to view it (which, IIRC, is free).
>Send me a private e-mail if you want it.
>-Robin
>-- 
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>

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