Lojban Mad-libs?

[Thorild Selen <thorild@Update.UU.SE>]

Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group writes:
 > From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@lojban.org>
 > 
 > Some has just suggested to me that Lojban writers could write "mad-libs" in
 > Lojban.  These are stories in which selected words are omitted, but
 > labelled with a part of speech or other indicator as to what needs to be
 > filled in.  Someone else then supplies words of the indicated part of
 > speech and the resulting story is read, random-sounding and usually funny.
 > 
 > This sounds a little like what the random sentence generator produces, but
 > the latter has everything random and not just selected words, so there is
 > no cohesion to the story.  But in any case the exercise could be useful in
 > teaching vocabulary and grammar.
 > 
 > Note that the clues might be  "at least 4 place brivla"  "number", and not
 > "noun", "verb", "adjective" as in English Madlibs.

I believe that without additional information, these sentences/stories
will be even more nonsensical than in English! Just think of how
places in a place structure can be used for all kinds of purposes!

"O John! From the time of something being flammable and onwards, I
hopefully ceased to be a sphere made out of the event of this having
been moving about or going to the market, PLEASE?"

Are you expecting more meaningful sentences than this? :)

/Thorild


P.S.: Exercise left to the reader: Translate the text above into Lojban.