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

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

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:24:10PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
> Yes, {cu} is far more common than {ku} but the point is that it's
> easier to learn that "you sometimes don't need {ku} and here's a
> handy word {cu}" than "you mostly just need to use {cu}.... well,
> unless you have an abstraction followed by... well I guess you
> never really NEED it, but it's useful when you would have
> otherwise had a whole bunch of terminators"
> 
> Better to teach the rule and then show shortcuts than to teach
> shortcuts as the rule.

If that was all it was, I would agree, but you also need to teach
the requirement for {vau} and {kei} and {ku'o} and how to order them
and on and on and on.

Or you could just say "put {cu} in front of all your selbri.  you
don't know how to talk about more than one event or relative clause
per sentence yet", and that will give a beginner the abillity to say
90% of normal "Where is the bathroom?" sentences, and you're done.

-Robin

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