[lojban-beginners] Re: attempt at translation

2009-09-18 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
ossibly as a kind of memory hook in conjunction with looking things up in CLL. The BPFK is working on writing better cmavo definitions, that are intended to supplant the current definitions when they are done. The current draft for ki'e can be found here: http://lojban.com/tiki/BPFK+Section%3A+V

[lojban-beginners] Re: gusni

2009-09-17 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
#x27;u gusni mi lo tubnu" doesn't work either, because in actuality neon emits light, but in this example you are asserting that it _is_ light. > Maybe we're talking about wavelenghts here. Not really. We're talking about a relationship between light, the thing that is il

[lojban-beginners] Re: gusni-opportunity-bringing along

2009-09-15 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
go into the x1 place? I can't think of anyhthing sensible. lo se dirce be le glare jinme cu gusni The radiation from the hot metal is light. lo kandi po'o cu gusni fi lo laktergu'i A candle emits but a dim light. -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://ar

[lojban-beginners] Re: the dictionary other than pdf?

2009-09-07 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
ple on this list who would be willing to help. -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Public Notice as Required by Law: Any Use of This Product, in Any Manner Whatsoever, Will Increase the Amount of Disorder in the Universe. Although No Liability Is Impli

[lojban-beginners] Re: help with lujvo kilga'axa'i

2009-09-07 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
inna (not currently in dictionary? I'm unsure.) I'm not sure how you're deriving this word. Double consonants are not possible in Lojban, and words of the form consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel are reserved for gismu. -- Arnt Richard Johansen

[lojban-beginners] Re: klingon swears

2009-09-01 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
be fixed. Might it not be possible to make Ecartis display only the Klingon-related lists to people arriving from kli.org? -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get progr

[lojban-beginners] Re: regarding 'se'

2009-08-05 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
way, are you not using the reference grammar or the textbook to learn from? You have to read them, because it's impossible to adequately describe syntactical words or the grammar within a dictionary. -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Also, humans are made largely of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and some of those aren't so sweet. (Then again, luckily, some are). -- DirkvdM on en.wikipedia, Jan 20, 2006

[lojban-beginners] Re: Using lojban in SF

2009-07-23 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
st something like this: "doi skami .i gau ko gusni .i gau ko kalri" The advantages of this is that it more closely maps the stereotypical ellipticalness of the vocal commands given in space opera ("Computer! Lights! Open!"), and it's close to the way Lojban is used a

[lojban-beginners] Re: VCCCCV

2009-07-01 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
gbu la jbofi'e cu pe'a xusra le du'u zoi ly elktro ly na lojbo valsi -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Jeg er nok verdens sydligste sengevæter. Forutsatt at ingen på basen på Sydpolen driver med slikt, da.--Erling Kagge: Alene til Sydpolen

[lojban-beginners] Re: word for "pleasure"

2009-04-20 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
nal but want to > actually state the fact? The customary term seems to be "se pluka". -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Dwi'n gallu llefaru pob llinell heb atal, oherwydd does dim tafod gyda fi.

[lojban-beginners] Re: negative-opinion text

2009-04-15 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
di010307.html";>it does not > have completely orthogonal semantics SRC="http://www.lojban.org/tiki/img/icons/external_link.gif"; WIDTH="7" > HEIGHT="8" BORDER="0" DATASIZE="79">. The page has moved to h

[lojban-beginners] Re: T shirt

2009-04-10 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
{ty} + {creka} would yield: ty. zei creka See CLL chapter 4 section 6: http://jbotcan.org/cllc/c4/s6.html (Unavailable at the time of writing, but Google has it cached: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:DajSLjJkyj4J:jbotcan.org/cllc/c4/s6.html) -- Arnt Richard Johansen

[lojban-beginners] Re: A few lojban questions...

2008-12-07 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
to sounds. However, the sets of sounds that each letter maps to is non-overlapping, so that if you hear a sound, you will always (in theory) know which letter it represents. An overview of the mapping is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban_grammar#Phonology (I'm linking to Wikipedia, be

[lojban-beginners] Re: "nevermind"

2008-11-18 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
ojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=phrasebook -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ This program posts news to billions of machines throughout the galaxy. Your message will cost the net enough to bankrupt your entire planet. As a result your species wil

[lojban-beginners] Re: misaligned words in the LRG

2008-11-04 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
rrently discussing how to get a better presence on Amazon (perhaps by distributing CLLs to members who can then sell them on Amazon). We are also discussing ways to get shorter turn-around times in order fullfilment. -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/

[lojban-beginners] Re: vocabulary

2008-10-30 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
http://www.lojban.org/irc/ (Of course, if chatting is against *policy*, and not just blocked, I'm not responsible if you get caught. :-) ) -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ - Hvorfor snakker man engelsk på Internet? - Har du hørt om minste felles nevner?

[lojban-beginners] Re: A bystander question concerning the recent CFG challenge

2008-10-29 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
uages are considered frivolous by the academic establishment, and therefore unworthy of study. See: http://dedalvs.free.fr/notes/manifesto.php In general, about the silliness taboo in academia: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/arbitrary-silli.html -- Arnt Richard

[lojban-beginners] Re: Do you agree with this guy?

2008-09-28 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
ube.com/watch?v=yOw-3atOCIA > > I'm not going to even bother watching it: the answer is no. > > Ah, my gf has a digital video camera. Maybe I'll post a reply in > Lojban. :D If you do that, I'll write the English subtitles. (YouTube allows subtitles l

[lojban-beginners] Re: A few small questions

2008-04-04 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
t more lobykai? da na nonseldi'a dormijysai -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Advisory: There is an Extremely Small but Nonzero Chance That, Through a Process Known as 'Tunneling,' This Product May Spontaneously Disappear from Its Present

[lojban-beginners] Re: on lojbanizing the place structure

2008-01-05 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
vdu x2 boi x3 boi x4 fi'o se marce x5 (In the HTML and Latex versions, the numbers are written as subscripts. This is a not-quite-canonical shorthand for xy xi pa, xy xi re, etc.) -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.

[lojban-beginners] Re: -PVO.FUT=RPT

2007-08-20 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
T", "RPT", what do they mean? (Jorge, I need your help!) http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/morpheme.html might be a helpful document. I can recognise "FUT" as future tense, but not the rest. -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ This pro

[lojban-beginners] Differently-shaped vocal equipment (was: Re: Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #97)

2007-06-21 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
o individual differences. ( http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ohiou1050668842 ) Except for abnormal conditions such as a cleft palate, everyone is equally capable, physically, of producing any speech sound. -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Vacuum

[lojban-beginners] Re: la melpelkre .e le ci cribe

2007-05-31 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
y abridged > version of a popular English children's story, in Lojban, with > illustrations that I can point at so my non-Lojbanist listeners can > see what part of the story we're at. Compare: http://icwww.epfl.ch/~dyke//chrestomathy/goldilocks-txt.html -- Arnt Richard Johansen

[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #85

2007-05-28 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
;m surprised. I thouht it was an > important word for Lojban people... We just use keyboards. ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist.) -- Arnt Richard Johansenhttp://arj.nvg.org/ Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to replace a light bulb? A: no.

[lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary

2007-05-27 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/ , which is the first entry in the not-too-intuitively-named page "Dictionaries, glossers and parsers". http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Dictionaries%2C+Glossers+and+parsers&bl It is *very* helpful when people point out that things are difficult to f

[lojban-beginners] Re: A0: the first words

2007-05-21 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:50:32PM -0400, Turniansky, Michael [UNK] wrote: > xabjbi is a lujvo (compound word) composed of the the rafsi xab (from > xabju -- live) and jbi (jibni -- near). Apart from the fact that xab is not the rafsi of xabju, but of xadba. -- Arnt Richard Jo

[lojban-beginners] Re: Original Loglan article.

2007-04-18 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
te a photocopy! Others in this thread have already mentioned ways of getting the article. I thought I'd just mention that you might find the wiki page http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Scientific+American+article&bl interesting. -- Arnt Richard Johansen

[lojban-beginners] Re: DICT server -- specifying dictionary

2006-04-25 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
t;en->jbo" -h lojban.org say English to Lojban 1 definition found From English to Lojban [en->jbo]: {say},is the gloss word for {cusku}. Note that the ISO 639-2 code for Lojban is 'jbo', not 'lbo'. Hope this helps. -- Arnt Richard Johansen

[lojban-beginners] A ranking system for Lojban speaking proficiency?

2005-11-16 Thread Arnt Richard Johansen
ts for conversation, *and* automatically update scores. There would also have to be some delay and/or obfuscation, to prevent people from inferring the vote of the opponent by comparing their current rating to the previous one. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELO_rating_system