From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Jan 30 09:57:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 30 Jan 2001 17:57:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 86881 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2001 17:43:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Jan 2001 17:43:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Jan 2001 18:44:07 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id MAA05462; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:48:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:48:38 -0500 To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] UNIX Logflash? Message-ID: <20010130124837.C2966@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20010129214017.A20526@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:01:03AM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:01:03AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:25:09PM -0500, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > > [flashcard] > > > The program's author goes on to say: > > > > > > Then I can use `flashcard' to drill me on this file, either > > > presenting me with the `dutch' field and letting me think of the > > > `english' field, or vice versa. `flashcard' will not check my > > > answers (unless I'm in multiple-choice mode); I must judge if I > > > got the answer right or wrong, and hit `r' or `w' accordingly. > > > > That seems useless in the extreme. Is it fixable? > > > > -Robin > > > Are you OK with the fact that you yourself judge if you were correct > (presumably, after seeing the full card and the correct English > translation)? It was that 'presumably' clause I was unclear on. Yes, that seems useful. > Because, the reason I stopped using Logflash is that I had already > memorized a good chunk of the vocabulary by concept and usage, not by > keyword. Therefore, when presented with the word "cmavo", which I > understood completely, I didn't remember the (imprecise) English > keyword and got stuck repeating it 6 times more. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP