[lojban] Sports scores

["Adam D. Lopresto" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

I recently saw on #lojban that there's been some more work in getting the
speech synthesizer stuff working in Lojban.  Sounds great, and I was
immediately thinking of ways to apply it.  Currently, I have some sports score
alerts sent to me by email, and I'm using procmail and some scripts to rewrite
them a little (because I've got a TTS program that reads me the From and
Subject line of incoming mail, I'm parsing them and making sure the vital
information appears in the subject).  So I started thinking of how I could
translate them into Lojban.

The tricky thing is, I haven't been able to come up with any good ways of
saying what I want in Lojban.  Ideally there'd be a single selbri that meant
something like "In game x1, visitors x2 has score x3 and home team x4 has score
x5 at time (inning, quarter, time remaining, whatever) x6" or something like
that.  Of course, that might be really complicated to work with, but...

I've looked at things involving kelci, jivna, ni jinga, tcini, but I can't
quite figure out a good way to put them together to get what I want.  I realize
that it will probably just come down to creating a lujvo and using it, but I
wanted to get some suggestions.
--
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

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