From thorild@xxxxxx.xx.xxx Thu Apr 22 08:03:11 1999 X-Digest-Num: 121 Message-ID: <44114.121.687.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:03:11 +0200 From: Thorild Selen From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group > > Some has just suggested to me that Lojban writers could write "mad-libs" in > Lojban. These are stories in which selected words are omitted, but > labelled with a part of speech or other indicator as to what needs to be > filled in. Someone else then supplies words of the indicated part of > speech and the resulting story is read, random-sounding and usually funny. > > This sounds a little like what the random sentence generator produces, but > the latter has everything random and not just selected words, so there is > no cohesion to the story. But in any case the exercise could be useful in > teaching vocabulary and grammar. > > Note that the clues might be "at least 4 place brivla" "number", and not > "noun", "verb", "adjective" as in English Madlibs. I believe that without additional information, these sentences/stories will be even more nonsensical than in English! Just think of how places in a place structure can be used for all kinds of purposes! "O John! From the time of something being flammable and onwards, I hopefully ceased to be a sphere made out of the event of this having been moving about or going to the market, PLEASE?" Are you expecting more meaningful sentences than this? :) /Thorild P.S.: Exercise left to the reader: Translate the text above into Lojban.