Re: Re: lojban newbie: an outsider looking in

["Michal Wallace (sabren)" <sabren@manifestation.com>]

On 27 Oct 1999, Chris Double wrote:

> No dictionary has been published as far as I'm aware. There is a nice
> .pdf file at http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/lojban/index.html that I
> use that serves as a good stand in. It lists gismu, rafsi, cmavo, etc
> along with an english to gismu listing.

Thanks!

> I'd use it if it was available. Particularly if there was some sort of
> 'honesty' system, where I didn't have to type in the answer, rather I
> could guess the answer silently and confirm whether I was right. The
> less keyboard use the better for me. I've used Flash!, a flashcard
> program on the Palm Pilot, which does this and it works quite well.

That makes the most sense to me as well. It only hurts the user if
they're dishonest, so why write a lot of code to prevent it?

> >   Finally: is the flag/logo really working? I hunted it down to put on
> > the lojban website that I'm making... And decided against it. 
> 
> It looks good printed on the cover of the reference grammer IMHO. In
> fact, the reference grammer is a damn fine book both in usefulness and
> in quality. 
> 
> Perhaps it's the bitmap quality or the way it appears on a web page
> that's the problem?

Well, now that I understand what the symbol means, I like it a little
better.. but I stil think it looks a little weak, with all the thin
lines. (I haven't seen the cover to the book)


Cheers,

- Michal
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