[lojban] Re: Newbie questions

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:34 PM, robert wrote:
> I'm a total n00b to Lojban, so I apologize in advance for any  
> questions inappropriate to this forum. The reason I'm posting here  
> instead of the "Beginners Mailing List" is that the link to that  
> list appears to be broken in the wiki (see the link on this page: [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojbanic+Forums&bl=y 
> ]).

Just so you know, the "forum" on the tiki is just a web interface to  
the mailing lists, which you can subscribe to properly at <http://www.digitalkingdom.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/ 
>.

> Q1: Did I use gugde, tcadu, and nenri correctly?

Yes, though I don't think "{la frans. nenri la .iurop.}" is  
technically correct. "{nenri}" means total containment, and I'm pretty  
sure France controls some islands in the Pacific and possibly  
elsewhere as well (I don't know about Italy, though).  "{se vasru}"  
can be used instead for containment that's not necessary total.

> Q2: Are there universally accepted city, country, and other  
> political grouping names?

Universally accepted in the Lojban community or throughout the world?   
In Lojban,  countries that have cultural {gismu} assigned can have  
{lujvo} for names; for example, France can be referred to as "{la  
fasygug.}" or "{la fasygu'e}" ("French country").

> Q3: Does Lojban really just run all the sentences together?

No.  Sentences are supposed to be separated with "{.i}" (or "{ni'o}"  
for paragraphs).

> Q3a: When parsing .... la paris. tcadu. la romas. tcadu. .... is  
> backtracking expected upon hitting the second "tcadu" so that "la  
> paris. tcadu. la romas." is not interpreted as "Paris is a city of  
> metropolitan area Rome"?

See the answer to the previous question.

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