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

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:36:33PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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.
> 

This makes perfect sense to me.  I will revert the use of all
elidable terminators in the Lojban USC.

-Alan
-- 
ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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