From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Aug 02 06:41:01 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 2 Aug 2001 13:41:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 93540 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2001 13:41:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Aug 2001 13:41:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Aug 2001 13:41:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f72Dex527259 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:40:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Speaking Lojban In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote: > Out of purely idle (I think) curiosity, if one were to mug up > in preparation for conversational Lojban, which area ought one > to be concentrating on? Attitudinals? Gismu? That is, it's > quite easy to single out the bits one doesn't need at all, > such as mekso and complicated tense stuff, but less obvious > (to me) which are the most useful bits for Get By in Lojban. > --And. In my opinion, the attitudinals pack more power per word than any other class. It's good to know about half the gismu though; the half that doesn't refer to specific animals types etc. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!