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RE: [lojban] Re: Speaking Lojban
At 12:45 PM 8/2/01 +0100, 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.
Because of our dearth of vocabulary knowledge as well as lexicon depth, I
would choose a couple of conversation topics and thesaurus-like work up a
vocabulary list for talking about those topics. You'll probably have to
make a few nonce lujvo or tanru in advance. Then study those.
Otherwise, the safe bet is to look at the frequency lists for words in the
three 1999.zip files under
www.lojban.org/files/files/draft-dictionary/Working/
and choose words from among the most frequently used.
lojbab
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