Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 11 July 2010 17:14:49 Lindar wrote:
> The director addressed something just now about the script. It's
> edging on being too campy, so what he suggested is that he crack open
> a study book and say, "Okay, I should study before we land.", and then
> it does the imagination scene wherein they name things. They should
> start with J vs. DJ and stress the difference, and the first few times
> he should mess it up. Next should be C and TC, and he would try to
> pronounce it like a K. Finally, he should come across some confusing
> words (like sodva vs. sovda, tsiju vs. sidju, mlatu) and words with
> difficult consonant clusters.

"cutci" is a good word for c/tc. Also "tcaci" and "tcica". ca lo pamoi be lo 
prilio lo nu tcica cu tcaci. And I constantly mix up "grana" and "garna" - 
any tips on keeping those two straight?

> Another fun thing would be to have a cabin message play in Lojban and
> then English.

ma'a galtu la'u lo mitre be li voki'oxanono .i ma'a tolcliva le vijytcana za 
lo mentu be li pamu .i jacke'o li reci .i lo mlisicpi cu carvi

Cabin messages, though, are sometimes drowned out by airplane noise. I once 
was on a plane to Portugal, and there was a message in Portuguese followed by 
English. The flight was my first time trying to decode spoken Portuguese, but 
as I already knew French and a fair bit of Spanish, it was fairly easy. The 
only thing I could catch was "vinte minutos", and I didn't understand any 
more than that of the English!

> I think the signs around the terminal should all be in Lojban as well.
> He could try to read everything on his way out.
>
> We need to create a small-ish metropolitan area (San Luis Obispo is
> the best reference I can give, so if you've never been, look for it on
> a map, it's in California, USA) with a little bit of outlying suburbia
> and a central busy-area, and maybe one day in a later episode they can
> go visit a major city. So, how exactly are we going to go about
> creating this whole fictional town?

There's a map of the whole country at 
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=jbotut. There are only two 
cities shown. Most likely the airport is near Bertcad, and the small-ish 
metropolitan area could be in the nearby plains.

Pierre
-- 
Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

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