From opoudjis@optushome.com.au Wed Sep 11 03:36:57 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: opoudjis@optushome.com.au X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 11 Sep 2002 10:36:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 12426 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 10:36:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2002 10:36:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail025.syd.optusnet.com.au) (210.49.20.147) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 10:36:56 -0000 Received: from c17180.brasd1.vic.optusnet.com.au (c17180.brasd1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.155.40]) by mail025.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8BAatF26709 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:36:55 +1000 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:36:55 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Texts request To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <643D8792-C572-11D6-B093-003065D4EC72@optushome.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) From: Nick Nicholas X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=90350612 X-Yahoo-Profile: opoudjis As I've vaguely indicated on the wiki, I am considering including short reading texts in the lessons --- a short para for each, using the grammar learned up to that point (though not necessarily the vocab.) I'd like these to be found pieces. I already know I want the first to be one of Craig's UI poems --- not out of any great love for the genre :-) , but because it, uh, has little grammar. I also want to use this as an excuse to presage the chrestomathy: towards the end, I'd like to include excerpts from classics of yore like Ivan's Tale of the Stairs and Athelstan's Open Window. If anyone has any ideas in this direction, could they please wiki them, and I'll come back to this in a fortnight? http://www.opoudjis.net http://www.opoudjis.net DR NICK NICHOLAS. LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Such a lack of true education is finally also attested for the common administration of the time, both secular and religious; had they not lost their brain, they would not have lost their kingdom three hundred years hence. (Adamantios Korais on Byzantium, _Miscellanea_, 1828).