Re: Presentation, visual aid grammar diagrams

["wilko dijkhuis" <w.dijkhuis@home.nl>]

--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Matt Arnold <mattarn@1...> wrote:
> For a presentation that I'm giving on Lojban, I'd like to ask this 
group two questions.
> 
> #1, Since I'll be presenting to a group of open-source computer 
programmers, they might be tempted to join the Lojban community if I 
show them a list of interesting applications that they could make. 
What are the skills most needed, and the programs most needed? What 
opportunities are currently available for group development of 
Lojban-related software?
> 
> #2, For the visual presentation, I'd like to make graphics 
inspired by the illustration in CLL chapter 12 depicting a type of 
tinkertoy construction set. I intend to lean heavily on functional 
elegance from an engineering standpoint-- the concept of Lojban as a 
sophisticated toolkit. I wonder if I could extend this visual 
metaphor of modular parts to explain the basics of gismu, cmavo and 
place structures in a lojban sentence. Have any of you made drawings 
of this nature?
>

Being an electrical engineer, I'm very visually inclined.
In the last weeks I have been trying to develop the exact thing that 
you seem to ask for. 

Have a look at my results thus far: 
http://members.home.nl/w.dijkhuis/visual_lojban/visual_lojban_draft01
.doc



> When I was first beginning in Lojban, I recalled the grammar 
diagrams we used to do in English class to identify parts of speech. 
I thought about actually cutting pieces out of wood to represent 
gismu. When a block with a gismu written on it was employed as a 
selbri, the segments depicting the meanings x1, x2 etc. would 
telescope out to became sumti bays. In these bays you could slot 
other blocks. Cmavo pegs could work as "adapters" with specialized 
ends that restricted their attachment to proper grammatical use. 
Reading further, I came to realize that's insanely complicated for a 
variety of reasons. It was impractical to physically implement, but 
I still think there might be a potential to make grammar diagrams as 
flash animations this way. At least it might work for the simplest 
beginner sentences.
> 
> -la epcat
> 
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