From jewel@pixie.co.za Fri Aug 04 23:46:47 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16650 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 06:46:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Aug 2000 06:46:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za) (196.2.48.239) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 06:46:46 -0000 Received: from pta-dial-196-31-187-220.mweb.co.za by cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FYT002LM45TDT@cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za> for lojban@egroups.com; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:46:43 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:50:09 -0200 (GMT+2) Subject: Re: [lojban] LogFest 2000 starts!!! In-reply-to: X-Sender: jewel@svetlana.mweb.co.za To: Jim Carter Cc: lojban@egroups.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: John Leuner > Another point that Cyril Slobin recently brought up: there's a difference > between skill at reading and writing the language, vs. realtime verbal > conversation. We want to encourage both, but in the net environment the > verbal side needs a lot more encouragement. And is particularly hard to > score by machine across the net. Well for really simple skills you could have one-word answers, or go'i, na go'i etc . That would be easy to automate. If you're into the whole AI thing, we could have a program with a turtle, or a set of blocks. Your task is to construct a tower of the blocks by issuing commands in lojban. Similarly draw a shape with the turtle. Just ideas. John Leuner