[lojban-beginners] Re: Difficulties and frustrations

[Jessica <j.shewellbrockway@virgin.net>]

All gismu have between two and four rafsi. Each gismu has two 'long 
rafsi'. These are:

1. The gismu itself (eg cukta)
2. The gismu minus its final vowel (eg cukt)

Gismu may have zero, one or two of the following rafsi:

3. CVV (eg bangu => bau) or CV'V (eg cmavo => ma'o)
4. CCV (eg cukta => cku)
5. CVC (eg bangu => ban)

{glinanmu}? Would this not be {gliprenu}, as maleness is not part of the 
definition? It seems strange and somewhat malglico (maldotco, malfraso, 
et cetera) to say that you are a 'glinanmu', but that I, or any other 
female native English-speaker, am a 'glininmu'.

As for the necessity of writing it down, is that not simply due to lack 
of fluency? Any language, when you are first learning it, is hard to 
break down on the fly. When learning another natural language, most 
speakers tend to memorise 'stock' phrases, which is hard to do with lojban.

It often goes unnoticed by fluent speakers, but English runs together a 
lot of words. We only actually pause when there is some kind of punctuation.

fe'omi'e JEsikas.