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Re: [lojban-beginners] lo do ckiku ma zvati



On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
>> 4.  What's with all the {cu} and {vau}?  Seems unnecessarily
>> complicated.
>
> On IRC, I was told (I think by xorxes) that it is standard procedure
> to teach newbies all the elidable terminators and only after
> practicing with them begin to practice without them.

Definitely not by me. I don't really have any insights as to what is
best for teaching, but text with elidable terminators not elided
always strikes me as very weird.

> It didn't quite fit my own intuition, but I was trying to adopt the
> best practice we've discovered for teaching Lojban.  I'm happy to
> discuss this.  It may turn out there isn't concensus on which is
> best.

That's probably the case.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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