Re: [lojban] Re: mass-uploading?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:41:17AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
>      > What about cmavo? �Just take the definitions as they currently are
>      > in the list?
> 
>      Still open.
> 
>    You could do that, certainly. It'd be nice to have individual
>    entries for each point on the scale for scalar cmavo (i.e.
>    {.ui}, {.uicai}, {.uinai}, eic.), but I think that it'd be too
>    cumbersome to do that, 

Well, {.ui} and {.uinai} are in the list already.  The sai/cai/ru'e
versions aren't, and that seems too many extra words to me.

> and learners more than likely could figure it out. In short, I
> think a striaght one to one transfer from the cmavo list would be
> fine.

Coo'.

> The only (big) question in my mind is, how to order them?
> Alphabetical is certainly not the way to do it, but both selma'o
> order and usage order have their points.

I don't see any advantage to selma'o order for flashcards at all;
usage order is best for people trying to memorize vocabulary.

-Robin

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