Re: [lojban] Re: lo jbove'a cukta

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:54:58PM -0700, Lindar wrote:
> While you and others may not agree, I have spent a LOT of time in the
> past two months teaching students, and I find that they all have a
> much better grasp of terminators, and thus have fewer problems
> understanding the grammar in general, when {cu} is not taught. It is,
> in my opinion, a crutch that people rely upon far too much. One should
> learn "is not" before "isn't" and "I am" before "I'm" lest people for
> some reason start confusing your/you're in both meaning and
> pronunciation. =D
> 
> Also, CLL is not meant for learning. It's a lovely resource, but many
> in the modern and active teaching community including myself and
> kribacr believe that it teaches Lojban incorrectly, and starts habits
> which result in very bad Lojban (namely in that a frighteningly large
> number of people believe {cu} is required at all ever). I can't say
> much for L4B, except that I prefer the more modern Wave Lesson to it
> as I have seen first hand how it produces better results and speakers
> with a better understanding of the language.
> 
> So, while you may not understand the argument, I do ask of you that
> you leave the terminators in and only use {cu} where I have done so.
> It provides a better ease of readability and falls in line with the
> pedagogy we've established, which we have seen produces better
> students. Learning the shortcut first has never resulted in a proper
> understanding of anything, and that's exactly what {cu} is.
> 
> I would indeed greatly appreciate that. =D
> 

+1

-Alan
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ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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