[lojban-beginners] Re: My increasing comfort with lojban.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:12:29AM -0500, turnip wrote:
> I'm bringing more lojban into my life, and finding that I can say
> lots of things without looking anything up, despite the fact that
> I probably only have memorized  about 50-60 gismu (haven't
> actively counted it up).  I've even been using lojban with my dog:
> ko klama ti, ko klama tu (or ko klama fi mi), ko stali, ko zuste.
>
> On the radio today, I heard an interviewer ask (I think in
> reference to fighting terrorism), "Will you continue to use the
> same tools?"  I immediately said, "xu do baca'o pilno la'edi'u"
> without hesitation.  I also said to my son yesterday, when trying
> to remember a conversational thread "mi djuno le du'u mi'o pu na
> tavla fi la lojban" (I know, I probably should have said "mi djuno
> le du'u mi'o pu  casnu na'ebo la lojban" but I didn't know casnu
> (I remembered there was some brivla for "discuss", but didn't know
> what it was), and the sumti negation didn't occur to me until
> later).  But still, I am proud of myself.

You should be!  I've fallen out of the habit of doing that sort of
thing, and I can't do it anymore for the most part.  It's a very
cool thing.

-Robin

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