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

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

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:42:24AM -0600, Alan Post 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.
> 
> 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.

You know, it occurs to me that *even if* that's the best pedagogical
solution, it's still wrong for WAYK.

The point of WAYK is to teach the language as it is actually spoken,
is it not?  I have never said {le pendo ku klama le zarci ku vau} in
my life, and never will; that's not the language as it's actually
used, so WAYK shouldn't be teaching it.

-Robin

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