From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Aug 02 10:16:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 2 Aug 2001 17:16:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 4636 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2001 17:15:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Aug 2001 17:15:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Aug 2001 17:15:14 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (209-8-89-114.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.114]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f72HFCX17222 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:15:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010802130734.00ca6220@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:13:17 -0400 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Speaking Lojban In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" 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 -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org