From pycyn@aol.com Fri Mar 23 09:23:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 23 Mar 2001 17:23:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 95569 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2001 17:23:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Mar 2001 17:23:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r17.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.71) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 17:23:55 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r17.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id r.dd.11fff286 (17236) for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:23:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:23:51 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Marketing lojban To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_dd.11fff286.27ece0a7_boundary" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10501 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_dd.11fff286.27ece0a7_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/23/2001 10:17:09 AM Central Standard Time, jay.kominek@colorado.edu writes: > How do you > know when you're good enough that your Lojban is basically right all the > time? Maybe since I'm not to that point I don't know that a little sign > starts flashing behind your retina saying "You've reached the 4th level, > congratulations!"? > Well, one obvious thing to do is submit all your (written) Lojban to an impartial examination: one of the functioning parsers. That will require you not only to see that it does parse, but to learn enough about reading the parser output to see that it parses as you intended. However, after that, you get the little light that says "Bingo" or another that says "Oops, better check up on {kei} or {be'o}" or whatever happens when it does not go as planned. --part1_dd.11fff286.27ece0a7_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/23/2001 10:17:09 AM Central Standard Time,
jay.kominek@colorado.edu writes:


How do you
know when you're good enough that your Lojban is basically right all the
time? Maybe since I'm not to that point I don't know that a little sign
starts flashing behind your retina saying "You've reached the 4th level,
congratulations!"?


Well, one obvious thing to do is submit all your (written) Lojban to an
impartial examination: one of the functioning parsers.  That will require you
not only to see that it does parse, but to learn enough about reading the
parser output to see that it parses as you intended.  However, after that,
you get the little light that says "Bingo" or another that says "Oops, better
check up on {kei} or {be'o}" or whatever happens when it does not go as
planned. --part1_dd.11fff286.27ece0a7_boundary--