[lojban-beginners] Re: A ranking system for Lojban speaking proficiency?

[sunnan@handgranat.org]

Note: The ELO system itself is no longer used as is for chess ratings.
Both USCF and FIDE have switched to logistic distribution-based formulas.

Another flaw with this setup is that it's a worst-of-both-worlds-kind of
scenario with subjective judgement coupled with a complex statistical
system.

A third is that people are unlikely to correctly judge the other persons
speaking "skill". I often either hold back (to be better understood), or
the opposite, go out on deep water, linguistically.

About the idea of rating lojban skill in general:
.i'enaisai Count me out. It scares me and I find it tasteless and
elitistic. This might be a knee-jerk reaction from my behalf, but I just
don't like this idea.

I don't mind being rated in chess (even though I'm at less than 1200, and
sinking) but lojban is art.

This is just my (emotionally based) opinion, YMMV.

If anyone wants to know how far they've gotten with lojban, they can:
* consider how much vocabulary they know and use
* consider how well they understand written and spoken lojban
* consider how many grammatical "features" they know and use -- how far
they've made it through CLL and LFB

It's probably easier to measure yourself than someone else.

mi'e snan