[lojban] I've almost run out of cmavo to memorize

["Matt Arnold" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

This is an announcement that I have acheived a personal Lojban
milestone. I am 77% through my flashcards of gismu and cmavo.

I started this process in August 2004 on the Supermemo flashcard
program for the Palm OS. I've been working consistently except for a
setback of hardware failure a year ago. My old handheld and my desktop
hard drive lost their data simultaneously, and I was so discouraged I
didn't catch up for almost six months.

Every day I commit five new words. I have not been doing them purely
in order of usage frequency, because I wanted to learn more cmavo
sooner; so I would zoom ahead in the frequency list and do the nearest
two cmavo every day. I have been skipping over cmavo whose meaning I
don't even know in English, and which I am unlikely to ever use given
my ignorance of math and formal logic

This week I ran out of cmavo which I wish to know. Eventually I'll
learn the rest, but I would sooner learn the obscure gismu for
"sulfur" or "Antarctica". After I'm done learning the gismu, I'll
learn the obscure cmavo to the best of my understanding so that when
someone speaks them to me I can know which field of specialist study
they are probably talking about. But until then I question their
immediate value to my practical fluency.

They are listed below. Let me know if you recommend any of them as
possessing an unforeseen usefulness to daily conversation in familiar
contexts.

-Eppcott


_MATH EXPRESSIONS:_
na'u   selbri to operator  |  jo'i     array                     |
fu'u    unspecified operator
me'o  the mex               | ni'e    selbri to operand     | pe'o
fore mex operator
lo'o    end mex sumti     |  cu'a   absolute value        | ge'a   null operator
ju'u    number base        | ne'o   factorial                  | va'a
additive inverse
si'i     sigma summation | fu'a    reverse Polish         | ku'e   end
mex forethought
ti'o     mex precedence   | re'a    transpose              | fe'a    nth root of
ri'o     integral                | nu'a   operator to selbri     | pa'i    ratio
sa'i    matrix of columns | fa'i     reciprocal of            | de'o   logarithm
sa'o   derivative              | bi'e    hi priority operator   | pi'a
  matrix of rows
                                   | ma'o  operand to operator | mo'e
sumti to operand
_______________________________________________________________

_KEYBOARD:_
tu'o   null operand            | na'a   cancel shifts           | zai
 select alphabet
ru'o   Cyrillic shift             | tei     composite lerfu       |
tau    shift next lerfu
ge'o  Greek shift              | jo'o    Arabic shift             |
ka'o   imaginary i
ra'e   repeating decimal    | ma'u  positive number       | se'e
character code
lau    punctuation mark    | lo'a    Lojban shift             | ce'a
font shift
je'o    Hebrew shift           | foi     end composite lerfu
_______________________________________________________________

_SENTENCE STRUCTURE:_     | _CONNECTIVES:_
nu'i   start fore termset               | ke'i   exclusive interval
nu'u  end fore termset                | ga'o  inclusive interval
ce'e  afterthought termset           | jo'e   union
fu'e   indicator scope                  | mi'i   center-range
fe'u   end indicator scope            | pi'u   cross product


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