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Re: [lojban] Re: Any volunteers for "Phrasebook. A multilingual dictionary"? (No Lojban skills required)



doi guskant, please don't enter any information written in lojban in Japanese (Romaji) column. Only one language allowed in each column.
Therefore, please transfer it to lojban column. You can use {to ... toi} for comments.

As not all of you have facebook account I'll keep you inform here of how ideas of Nizami are being crystallised.

Three points of Nizami.
1. Sentences are grouped in themes
2. Situational dialogs are preferred

And the most important item.
3. Short tutorials (just in one or two sentences) of how you are supposed to act in different situations depending on the country. e.g. http://wikitravel.org/en/Chinese_phrasebook has the following useful note "In most Chinese cities, there are no telephone booths. Instead, small street shops have telephones which can usually be used for national calls...."

Please note that "Language is not equal to country". Chinese is spoken outside mainland China. English is spoken everywhere.

The same can be said about some planned languages.
So short country-specific explanations are of great use. We should add them to Nizami.




On Monday, September 17, 2012 4:20:46 PM UTC+4, guskant wrote:
2012/9/17 Jacob Errington <nict...@gmail.com>:
> In my honest opinion, the best, exact way to talk about the age of someone
> is {.i do co'a jmive puza ma} "how long ago did you begin to live" or {.i do
> jbena puza ma} "how long ago were you born."
>

I agree to both. When you modify the question on the phrasebook, don't
forget to modify the answer to sumti.

mu'o

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