Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:07:22PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote:LogFlash has the built-in capability to change any (or all, if you want to do that much work) of the keywords. Of course, if you end up with two words with the same keyword, then recall becomes guesswork.That's not the point; a good flashcard system lets the *user* decide if they got it right, because computers are stupid. If I find myself saying "to go" for "klama", and I change it, then on the days that I find myself saying "come", I'm wrong. If the computer requires that I use particular keywords, *no* solution is correct. It's making you memorize the wrong thing, as I said.
Obviously a philosophical difference between us, possibly based on how we use the language.
I promote LogFlash because it worked - 20 years later despite an abysmal amount of actual usage in recent years, I can still pull up Lojban words based on the keywords (and because I mastered the entire set, and not just the ones most frequently used, I know which keywords have Lojban words, so that if I can paraphrase an English concept in terms of keywords, I have a start at a Lojban tanru).
Other approaches like yours might be better for someone who wants to be able to participate in a basic conversation without a dictionary quickly; I can not and do not say that your philosophy is wrong or bad. The LogFlash algorithm was designed to teach rote mastery of a word set, not conversation.
Still, if we ever update/rewrite the program, I imagine it would not be difficult to allow the user to override the program in deciding whether they were right or wrong. Then if you make a typo or use the wrong keyword, but you think you really know it, you can call yourself "correct".
I know myself well enough to know that if I had used such an option, I probably would have cheated - it is simply too easy for "I knew that" morphing into "I got it right" when self-testing. I prefer a stupid computer which is entirely objective to my own subjective and imperfectly motivated mind. (for the same reason, I would never change the 6 repetitions rule for errors, even though I remember times when I had to do a ridiculous amount of typing for words I "really knew". But we put the option into the program to change the repetition count).
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