On 8 July 2010 07:04, Lindar
<lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
So day one
will be basic sumti-selbri relationships, COI, ko, etc. Day two would
introduce LE as the exchange student learns the names of things around
the house.
I think the most basic / simplest forms in Lojban are one-word observative and one-word attitudinal:
jbogu'e (Lojbanistan!) -- what something is
coi (Hello!) -- what you feel
An observative (jbogu'e) and its sumti-fication (lo jbogu'e) are basically the same in that they both tells what something is with one selbri, but differ in the syntactical position/level where their meaning is rendered. Also, consider:
lo jbogu'e cu jbogu'e -- LE SELBRI represents the SELBRI's x1
When you introduce a LE sumti, you are introducing the notion of place structure at the same time. So I think it would be more effective for students to be systematically presented with these two items of knowledge (place structure & sumti-fication) on the same day (day two, if these are too much for the first day).
On day three, students could benefit from learning how to make the most of the brivlas and attitudinals introduced on day one, with only a few additional basic cmavo:
na jbogu'e (Not Lojbanistan!) -- what something is not
vi jbogu'e (Here Lojbanistan!) -- what & how something is
se jbogu'e (Lojbanist!) -- what something is, with respect to the argument base (x1)
coi nai (Bye!) -- what you feel, with respect to the scalar base