Re: [lojban] The New Method

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jameson Orndorff <jtorndorff@gmail.com> wrote:
>  There is a Google Wave
> that is being compiled of our work,

The content looks good, but I'm finding the navigation of the wave to
be a pain. The behavior of the up and down arrows especially, which
constantly make me lose the place I'm at. Maybe I'm missing something,
but I wish the arrows could be used to move one line at a time rather
than jumping from blip to blip.

> Simple tanru, using as diverse of a vocabulary as we can muster. We teach
> with great emphasis that ANY time two selbri are adjacent in text, they form
> a tanru.

Minor issue here: Your use of "selbri" is slightly non-standard. In
general, you cannot put two selbri together to form a new selbri,
because the selbri tag is considered a part of the selbri, so for
example "ca klama" is a selbri, "na djuno" is a selbri. Unfortunately,
there isn't any standard name for the tag-less part of the selbri. I
guess it could be called "tag-less selbri", but that only works once
you have introduced tags.

> {be ... bei ... be'o} - Again, making the case that the terminator is
> necessary. Strong examples help here.

The problem of teaching this structure before elision is that it is
then hard to justify. "be" is only needed because we want to elide
"ku" most of the time. If "ku" were not elidable, there would be no
point in having the be-bei-be'o structure. I think logically elision
needs to be taught before "be".

mu'o mi'e xorxes