Re: [lojban] Re: A Lojban Game

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

John understands. I put a lot of work into learning Lojban, and want
to measure results. If I could qualify for the equivalent of a karate
brown belt certification, I would want to receive it.
-epkat


On 1/11/06, jewel@pixie.co.za <jewel@pixie.co.za> wrote:
> Being able to estimate one's proficiency and being able to see the results of one's hard
> work would be a great way to encourage people to learn lojban. I've certainly seen this in
> the game of Go and in some martial arts. The ranking systems used there reward one for
> putting effort into learning and mastering the various skills and techniques required by
> those arts.
>
> In those systems it's hardly ever meaningful to compare the top two or the top few
> individuals. There is no overall "winner".
>
> The aim is really to be able to assess what skill level a student/practitioner has, and to
> then teach him/her the appropriate material to advance to the next level.
>
> Sometimes there is no "curriculum" and a student only advances by showing himself to be
> equal to those at higher levels ...
>
> For the lojban community I suggest that ideally there should be a strong connection
> between the teaching/learning material and the tests that award someone a ranking. For the
> higher level lojbanists maybe they could assess each other's ability and rank themselves
> (with some kind of voting system like the one suggested).
>
> It would great if this system could award points to those who help construct it .. so that
> the people who create the tests and do all the hard work of connecting it with the
> learning material demonstrate themselves be to experts and earn a high rank.
>
> John Leuner
>
> > On 1/10/06, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
> > > 10.01.2006, 21:31 Matt Arnold wrote:
> > >
> > > > The second kind is the timed challenge, which perhaps can be
> > > > implemented on the MOO, in the style of a game show where the contest
> > > > is to come up with the best translation that we can in a limited
> time> ..
> > > > The translations would not be ideal but would more closely reflect
> > > > proficiency in spoken Lojban.
> > >
> > > Do we really need estimating proficiency of Lojban speakers? As Cpt.
> Mi> ller said, "Our
> > > mission is to win the war", or, in other words, our mission is to
> > > develop Lojban. At this stage at least. In the first kind of game, the
> > > winner is who has most contributed to development of Lojban, not the
> > > most proficient speaker.
> > >
> > > mi'e .ianis.
> > >
> >
> > We don't need to estimate proficiency of speakers. But it's fun.
> > -epkat
> >
> >
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