Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Kids Show - lessons

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

On Friday 10 September 2010 20:08:43 Lindar wrote:
> I'm so glad you brought this up, because I was avoiding it like so
> many mentally unstable residents of Hollywood streets.
>
> Let's look at the script and the first section-ish where there's
> supposed to be some learning injected.
>
> I'd like to first cover selbri-sumti.
>
> "Well, you remember, right?"
> "Uhh... yeah, but maybe Chocolate doesn't... Could you explain it one
> more time?"
> "Yeah, it's like a fill-in-the-blank puzzle, right? So the word
> {dunda} means that blank -gives- blank -to- blank. It has all that
> built in to one word!"
> "Oh right! So {.i mi dunda} is like 'I give.'?"
> "Yeah, and if you want to say more, just keep filling in the blanks."
> etc etc.

The first lesson is a vocabulary lesson ("Let's see what you can name in 
Lojban"). What would be good words to use in this lesson?

The dialog will be all in Lojban, right? I find it hard to believe that Alpha 
would know Lojban well enough to converse and not know what "dunda" means. 
Mixing up the places of "fanva", though, I can see. What about categories of 
words with similar place structure? Or maybe Beta says something, Alpha 
says "ki'a", and a lesson ensues?

How about etymology? Maybe Alpha wonders where "nanla" and "nixli" come from. 
Or Beta might know the interesting tidbit that the beginnings of "bilma" 
and "bisli" come from Chinese words which differ only in tone (I heard about 
Chinese impressions of the Bing search engine).

Pierre

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