Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

[la arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Friday, May 31, 2013 11:08:13 PM UTC+4, lojbab wrote:
> Jonathan Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Robert LeChevalier <loj...@lojban.org
> > <mailto:loj...@lojban.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     <snip>
> >     Personally, the thing that probably keeps most people from learning
> >     Lojban is the same thing that keeps them from learning nay other
> >     language, natural or artificial.  That is vocabulary.  Adults need a
> >     couple thousand words of vocabulary in order to comfortably talk
> >     about the things that they want to talk about, or maybe a lot more,
> >     and learning a couple of thousand words is HARD for most people.  No
> >     simplification of grammar is going to eliminate that problem.
> >
> >     lojbab
> >
> >
> > That is precisely my difficulties with Lojban. The grammar is easy as π,
> > but I'm still learning the actual vocab. I'll admit to being somewhat
> > lazy on the learning of it, but I'd say at this point I know ~1/4 of the
> > gismu and cmavo, a smattering of non-jvajvo lujvo, maybe a couple
> > fu'ivla, and a very few of the experimental words like zo'oi.
>
> That was the point of the original LogFlash.

I have to admit I never tried it.

Does it have SuperMemo/Anki algorithm?

 

>  One of the few things that 
> JCB did that was actually scientific was to test flashcard algorithms, 
> and the original LogFlash encoded what he found to be the optimal one. 
> We eventually added some flexibility, but people turned away from the 
> tested algorithm in favor of all sorts of flashcard approaches.
>
> But the original one really worked.  25 years on with little regular 
> usage for the last dozen years, and I still recall most of the gismu, 
> having drilled them up to >95% in less than 2 months.  (I never 
> completed the cmavo and rafsi to such a high degree, but the ones that I 
> did learn I didn't forget very quickly.)
>
> Of course it is now a problem of converting the Turbo Pascal Dos program 
> into something more portable.  (Eric Raymond tried to convert the 
> program to portable C, but it never worked well.)
>
> lojbab

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