Re: [lojban] About the word "fluent".

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

I think even that happening once in a while is ok.  One of my co-workers is German who I would say is fluent in English but who every now and then will stop and have to ask "what is that word that means...".

I think it's unreasonable to say that a person isn't fluent just because they don't know every word.

I think commonness of the word has to come into play.  If a person struggles to remember the word "person" I'd say they're not fluent but a person who struggles to remember "aggregate" could definitely be "fluent".

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:17:36PM +0100, selpa'i wrote:

> You are not fluent in Lojban, based on what you described.

To be ultra-clear: I'm *not* fluent, I just don't think that what I
actually described is sufficient to clearly, cut-and-dried determine
that.

How I now I'm not fluent is that I'm sitting there going "Now, wait,
what's the place structure of julne again?  Oh, hmm, was it julne or
junle?", and that sort of shit.

-Robin

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