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[lojban-beginners] Re: Introduction

Jack Wright wrote:


Hi
I stumbled across lojban a few days ago when I was looking at a list of conlangs. What a beautiful language!
I study languages out of interest and I'm especially interested in those which force me to think in a different way to English, Spanish etc. So I've enjoyed most Finnish and Japanese. lojban looks to have that kind of different structure, but none of the irregular verbs (Finnish) and character problems (Japanese)... 

Yea, Lojban is pretty cool. I like the logical foundation.
A couple of questions on resources: I use a PDA flashcard programme (Stackz - v good by the way) - are there any sources of words (e.g. CSV) that I can adapt? Secondly, for the PDA are there any ebooks (MS Reader) that I can use? I've pasted in the draft textbook but it doesn't have an index etc.
Well.... yes for both! Except that you'll need to use iSilo instead of MS Reader. I assume you've found the Reference Grammer, "Lojban for Beginners" and the online dictionary (called "jbovlaste")? These are invaluable resources. "Lojban for Beginners" is in PDF format, so you could use any PDF reader to read it (I believe there's one for PDAs?). Also see http://wiki.lojban.org.
the resources: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Software&bl - the link saying "save this" for SuperMemo is the word list we use. Also poke around the wiki some more - there are more word lists to be found. 

If you find any more, feel free to add them to that wiki site.
The Reference Grammer for iSilo, as kindly done by Robin Lee Powell: http://www.lojban.org/fr/lists/lojban-beginners/msg00843.html - but unfortunately it seems to have disappeared. Robin: where is it now? 

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By the way, try my brand new, alpha-quality flashcard program - http://www.gulik.co.nz/LearnLojban_0.0.1.zip. There are lots of bugs (I'm making a list), so I'll be fixing them and releasing a better version soon. This version is for the PalmPilot, but because it's written using SuperWaba, it can be quickly ported to WinCE or Symbian (or Windows or Linux...). What type of PDA do you use? 
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mikevdg.