[lojban-beginners] Re: Biting off way more than I can chew -- and loving it!

[Gearhead Shem Tov <bnansel@internode.on.net>]

On Apr 11, 10:59 pm, "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG"
<loj...@lojban.org> wrote:
> Composing Lojban fresh, one would hopefully tend to think "relationship,
> relatees (sumti), predication" style, rather than that of English
> narrative or other styles.

I can't think of a better way -- for *me* -- to learn lojban than
trying to discover what the "natural" voice for lojban narrative might
be.  Reading existing texts would give me some flavour, but I'd be
stuck in Dick and Jane level for too long to hold my interest.  Better
to butcher a translation on my first go, then read the more elegant
stuff written by others to figure out where I went wrong, I reckon.


>  A more conversational or stream of
> consciousness style adding in lots of attitudinal and discursive forms
> (selma'o UI) (with the nature and style of expression of these forms
> being key to showing a character or POV person's personality).

This is a fascinating idea.  Does there seem to be a voice and POV
folks have found to work well?  Would I be best served trying to
discover the lojban equivalent of the 3rd person limited POV that's my
default in English?  Or would, say, something goofy such as second
person present tense be more natural?

>
> And no one would fault the ego of a real author writing his own story in
> Lojban %^)

Hmm.  Well, I do have a 700 word short-short that might be just the
ticket.  I'll have a think about it.

-Bobby

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