Re: Good order for learning gismu

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:10 PM 1/5/99 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Richard Curnow wrote:
>> Is there a list of gismu around, sorted into an ordering which
>> represents a good order for learning them?
>
>The 2-letter code following the place structure in the main gismu
>list represents Logflash order.  

Actually, this isn't true.  As I said in my earlier post, sorting on the
numbers in columns 161-164 in descending order gives the current LogFlash
order.

The two letter codes (actually a number and a letter in most cases) are
something else.  In the original draft textbook, outlined as 18 chapters of
which only 6 were written, I scoped out the then gismu list and assigned
which lesson numbers I would introduce them in, and then subgrouped them
either by semantic category or some othe criteria so I could introduce them
in the indicated lesson in some logical way. A letter in the first position
(I think I only used "a") is just a lesson number after 9) Sorting on the
code will therefore get my originally intended textbook order, which no
longer has much meaning, now that the draft textbook has been broken into
20+ pieces.

The "textbook order", while it is not frequency based, does do some
groupings of words by semantic categoriess, so that, for example, you learn
all the color gismu at one time, even though some may be more used than
others and a frequency list will have them scattered over many lessons.
That is one reason why I have kept the codes in the gismu list.

lojbab