Re: [lojban] Speaking Lojban

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On 31 Jul 2001, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:


> I had been practicing mostly the attitudinals, so if you recall I had more
> trouble with gismu than you, but I think I did a lot of compressing bridi
> (and whole jufra) down to attitudinals.  And we managed to have a decent
> discussion in Lojban with whole jufra as well.  Still, you're right.  We
> were making extremely deeply-nested sentences about {mi jinvi le nu do
> xusra le nu...} where a few well-placed attitudinals would have done the
> trick (pe'i, etc).


Thank you for speaking up! I had written that summary without the benefit
of proper sleep so I forgot to mention the good discussion you, Nora, and
I had, all in Lojban, concerning "va'o" vs. "ganai gi" as a translation
for "if, then". It ended in agreement, too!

.i'i .e'o ko ca'o casnu vecu'u dei



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