[lojban-beginners] Re: Constructive comments requested.

Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Constructive comments requested.

From: "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" <eyeonus@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:38:06 -0600

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On 4/24/07, mls1@rice.edu <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:

If someone would translate anything by Piers Anthony into Lojban, I would be
very, very pleased.

Quoting "Jon \"Top Hat\" Jones" <eyeonus@gmail.com>:

> I read it, and I find your approach interesting, but I doubt it's an
> approach that will work for me. I'm not really big on the puzzle solving
> thing.
>
> Someone translate a book by Piers Anthony into Lojban and I'll give your
> method a good try.
>
> On 4/24/07, Colin Wright <colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some time ago I wrote:
> >
> > > ... I was wondering if anyone here would care to comment on:
> > >
> > >     http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LojbanLanguage.html?LJ_BL
> >
> > Turniansky, Michael replied :
> > > Just a quick comment that your first five sample sentences
> > > have a superfluous "cu".
> >
> > I've been thinking more about this comment.  The English translations are,
> > of
> > course, "tensed", and hence inaccurate.  For the sake of an introductory
> > puzzle, what do people think of replacing the "cu" with "ca" in the first
> > six
> > cases?  Explaining about tense being optional, and "cu" being elidable,
> > could
> > then wait, and perhaps be the subject of a subsequent puzzle page.
> >
> > I also invite people here to comment - constructively - on this page:
> >
> > >     http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LearningLanguages.html?LJ_BL
> >
> > Again, please be diplomatic.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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