On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Michael Turniansky
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mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> S/he's actually teaching more
> lojban than learning German, a fact that will undoubtedly remain true
> until the other characters get a clue that you really need to dumb it
> waaaaayyyy down at the beginning of the learning curve (a la "Where
> are my keys?") and use one word utterances and gestures and not try to
> say full sentences when my char doesn't understand which of the words
> of your utterance might be the name of the thing you are pointing to
> when you say, "Siehst du das Elefanten dort drüben? Ich werde es mit
> meinem Blasrohr zu töten, während sie das Baden."* since I've only
> learned the word "Ich" so far!
Wow, that was a complete run-on, and I apologize to all my English