Re: [lojban] CAPL

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

Interesting.  OK.

-Robin

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:03:30PM +0000, james riley wrote:
> The point, as far as I could get from the interview on BB, was
> that a guy behind it was sick of having to use clip-art for
> flashcards (and their like) when there's photos available. And dry
> lists of "this word corresponds to this word" don't do it for
> everyone.
> 
> James/Cmacis
> 
> On 1 December 2010 19:44, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 03:11:15PM +0000, james riley wrote:
> > > I'm sure others have spotted this, but I've not seen anything on
> > > the list. Exciting project. Doesn't exactly scale to Lojban, and
> > > they certainly wouldn't add Lojban, but we could do a very similar
> > > project ourselves. Some sort of wiki where we post photos
> > > (possibly require login to upload photos. Anywhere allowing free
> > > photo uploading ends up with frackloads of kiddie-pron). Caption
> > > them in our native languages, and Lojban. I propose that they get
> > > a lo se/te/ve/etc. gismu rather than gismu. One photo can't give
> > > all places of a gismu. Of course, some can't be photographed. This
> > > is not a problem. Not every Russian word can be photographed.
> > > We'll just have to photo (or use freely licensed photos) for what
> > > is effectively a noun place.
> > >
> > > http://capl.washjeff.edu/index.php is the link
> >
> > I don't really see the point?  It's just a bunch of "the house"/"der
> > Haus", which is like "Well, *yeah*?".
> >
> > My response may be colored by the fact that the first image I
> > clicked through to was
> > http://capl.washjeff.edu/browseresults.php?langID=2&catID=20&subCatID=95
> > , which just offends me (I own a copy of the
> > http://www.signwriting.org/ book)
> >
> > -Robin
> >
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