On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:43:57AM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of something, as I'm not
> certain that you are.
> There are actually three lessons on Smart.fm for the items:
> The all-inclusive lesson, which is to contain all the
> items: [1]http://smart.fm/goals/179543
> The place-structure lesson, which to contain the bare
> gismu: [2]http://smart.fm/goals/179606
> And the sumti lesson, which is to contain the gismu
> sumti: [3]http://smart.fm/goals/179607
I don't know that I can use my scripts to upload into those goals; I
was going to make my own, similar, lists. I also want to see what
studying feels like with the whole gismu list; if it's too tedious,
I may break it down into parts.
All three of those goals have open collaboration, so you should be able to. Of course, it's easy to find out for certain: try it with a sample item. Looking at your script, the 5th argument is the list name. You could try using "Lojban gismu", the name of the all-inclusive goal,
http://smart.fm/goals/179543. Alternatively, you may be able to adjust arg4 to take the ID number of a goal and pass "179543"?
> So, when you do the uploading, I ask that you please upload the
> appropriate items to the other two lessons as well. Also, do
> you want the third (part of speech) and fourth (.mp3 filename)
> columns when I send you the list back?
Those can be added by a trivial script (search for "lo "; pick part
of speech based on that).
Anything that can be done by a computer without too much trouble,
sohuld be. If you see regularities in what I gave you that could be
exploited to make a better list automatically, you should be telling
me about them. Spending human time when computer time will do is
just silly.
I did tell you about the most prevalent pattern: "a(n) ... thing", and the desired alteration: "something..."
As in: "a drunk thing" -> "something drunk"
Another thing I've seen a lot of is too many "e"s. As in "a useer", which I take to be "a use-er" with the dash taken out.
And another one I mentioned:
"an express commenter" -> "an expresser of a comment"
And:
"a leap destination" -> "a destination of a leap"
"a leap origin" -> "an origin of a leap"
"a jump propulsion" -> "a propulsion of a jump"
(Although this one I don't think can be done by computer, however, "a ... standard" -> "a standard of ..." ought to be.)
I've gone through ~80% of the list already. All of the gismu have been double-checked, and all of the gismu sumti to {lo se rirni} as well, so at this point all that remains is the gismu sumti from {lo rirxe} on.
In two (three?) days effort I've managed to get all but 1001 of 4876 items checked and edited, so I figure one more session and I'll be finished anyway, especially since most of the items don't need to be edited. I'll probably be able to knock out the last few after lunch, or at the least before lunch tomorrow.
-Robin