Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Speaking Lojban

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:13:17 -0400

At 12:45 PM 8/2/01 +0100, 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.

Because of our dearth of vocabulary knowledge as well as lexicon depth, I 
would choose a couple of conversation topics and thesaurus-like work up a 
vocabulary list for talking about those topics. You'll probably have to 
make a few nonce lujvo or tanru in advance. Then study those.

Otherwise, the safe bet is to look at the frequency lists for words in the 
three 1999.zip files under
www.lojban.org/files/files/draft-dictionary/Working/
and choose words from among the most frequently used.

lojbab
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