From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Fri Jul 20 08:59:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 20 Jul 2001 15:59:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 92387 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 15:58:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Jul 2001 15:58:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 15:58:57 -0000 Received: from m219-mp1-cvx1b.bir.ntl.com ([62.255.40.219] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15NcR0-0005lO-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:43:23 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Vocabulary in Lessons Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:58:06 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" Bob C: > To clarify: the full gismu place structures are already in the lessons; > they are just scattered in the individual lessons. Should they be repeated > in toto at the end of the lessons.... ? > > Yes. Otherwise, even though you have talked about place structures, > English speakers will not understand. They will think your one-word > glosses are the `real thing'. Lojban really is different. You have > to lead people to understand that. I agree with Bob. I also think that it is pedagogically useful to not restrict glosses to those most appropriate for the x1. If the best gloss happens to fit a definition that begins with a non-x1, then it should be used. I am too tired to dredge up examples, but Jorge probably has a cantle off pat. --And.