Re: [lojban] Conversational ability test.

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

On Wednesday 04 January 2012 13:40:36 .arpis. wrote:
> Are "sentences" made up of lojban words which are incorrect
> grammatically lojban? What about if both people misuse (by implicit
> contract) certain words (I can't think of a good example now)? What if
> they habitually forget to separate the main bridi from the sumti
> before it? What about lojban with a lot of "zoi" and "zo'oi" and "me
> la"? Where is the line drawn between incorrect lojban, bad lojban, and
> not lojban?

I think that using bare foreign words should be penalized more heavily than 
quoting them with ZOI, which should be penalized more heavily than 
grammatical errors. It may be difficult or impossible, in certain cases, to 
avoid foreign words. For example:
(alis) .i ko lebna le .arxokuna le tricu
(bab) le moki'a
(alis) .arxokuna
(bab) lo .arxokuna cu mo
(alis) me la'o sy. mapache .sy.
(bab) ua .i mi punji le .arxokuna ma
I'd ignore, or score very lightly, the sorts of errors that everyone makes 
when speaking, even in his native language. For example, I've heard a Spanish 
speaker say "otro", then realize that the noun he's about to say is feminine, 
then say "otra" and the noun. Of course, until we have some native Lojban 
speakers with enough proficiency, we can only guess what sorts of errors 
those will be , but here's one example. You mean to say "jmina", but get the 
nasals mixed up, and half devoice the "j", resulting in something 
between "cnima" and "jnima". You then say "si", but you don't know which the 
listener heard. The preceding word is a CV cmavo like "mi". So you don't know 
whether the hearer is erasing one word "cnima" or two "mi jnima".

Pierre
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