RE: [lojban] Re: Speaking Lojban

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote:

> Out of purely idle (I think) curiosity, if one were to mug up
> in preparation for conversational Lojban, which area ought one
> to be concentrating on? Attitudinals? Gismu? That is, it's
> quite easy to single out the bits one doesn't need at all,
> such as mekso and complicated tense stuff, but less obvious
> (to me) which are the most useful bits for Get By in Lojban.
> --And.



In my opinion, the attitudinals pack more power per word than any other
class. It's good to know about half the gismu though; the half that
doesn't refer to specific animals types etc.




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